Done In London

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We wrapped up this week's class in London today: I think a lot of the students felt that they'd been in the wind tunnel most of the week, but the feedback was fairly positive:

Good

new content (hadn't seen before)
covered a lot (good to see things)
easy to apply / pragmatic
group exercises were fun / useful
Subversion
entertaining instructor (blah blah blah)
better understanding of best practices
persuasive arguments for best practices
nice to meet everybody!
accidental knowledge transfer (vertically and sideways)

Bad

too much too fast (got lost on Tuesday)
spent time thinking about programming tasks while instructor was showing solution
covered a lot (would have liked warmup before arrival)
too much hummus (could have used more variety in food)
not enough networking
how does it run on my machine??
not enough connection with sound
introduced software we may never use
not long enough (need more time)
no incentive to do exercises / homework