From 3132300c7e031e0b0fa7f797c0551dc409d7e899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mmcky <8263752+mmcky@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 09:15:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?news:=20weekly=20digest=20drafts=20(2026-08-02?= =?UTF-8?q?=20=E2=80=93=202026-08-09)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- _posts/2026-08-09-lectures.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2026-08-09-lectures.md diff --git a/_posts/2026-08-09-lectures.md b/_posts/2026-08-09-lectures.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31b37f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2026-08-09-lectures.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Lecture updates — August 2–9, 2026" +author: QuantEcon +excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon lectures." +tag: [lectures] +--- + +- 📚 **[lecture-intro.zh-cn](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-intro.zh-cn/releases/tag/publish-2026aug07b)** — Added Google Analytics tracking to the Chinese-language introductory lecture materials. + - [Enable Google Analytics](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-intro.zh-cn/pull/289) + +- 📚 **[A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python](https://intro.quantecon.org/)** — Added a new lecture covering statistical distribution fitting techniques, expanding the course's applied statistics content with practical Python-based data analysis methods. + - [New lecture: Fitting Distributions to Data](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-intro/pull/814) + +- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.fr](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/releases/tag/publish-2026aug03)** — Enabled the language switcher for the French edition of the lecture-python-programming site, allowing users to navigate between language versions. + - [Enable the language switcher for the French edition](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/pull/21) + +- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.fa](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fa/releases/tag/publish-2026aug03)** — Added language switcher support and corrected site URLs for the Persian (`fa`) edition of the lecture-python-programming course. + - [Enable the language switcher and fix this edition's site URLs](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fa/pull/145) + +- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.zh-cn](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.zh-cn/releases/tag/publish-2026aug03)** — Fixed the language switcher functionality and corrected URLs in the Chinese configuration for the `lecture-python-programming.zh-cn` site. + - [Enable the language switcher and fix URLs copied from the English config](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.zh-cn/pull/80) + +- 📚 **[Python Programming for Economics and Finance](https://python-programming.quantecon.org/)** — Added language switcher support for Persian, French, and Simplified Chinese editions of the Python Programming for Economics and Finance lecture series. + - [Add language switcher support for fa, fr and zh-cn editions](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming/pull/490)