Utah State University Wrap-Up

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Our bootcamp at Utah State University finished earlier today—many thanks once again to Ethan White and his friends for hosting us. Here's what the students thought:

Good

Bad

keeping history
break work into pieces
integrating different things
good for different levels of knowledge
liked the pace
good tech support from helpers
download data from the web
liked the escalation
using up-to-date languages
emphasis on commonality of patterns
liked flexibility
talked about formatting/style
everything consistent
Greg's stories
hearing from multiple people
organized around simple, general structural things
liked structure around data processing

machine/software setup
hard to keep up with Greg's typing
wind tunnel
no beer
assumed knowledge we didn't have
less lecture, more time on examples/practicals
rushed
wide range of applicability
wanted more complicated examples
some things glossed over
don't understand strengths/weaknesses of languages
would have liked time to make better examples
some places were "show" not "do"
didn't cover testing
Greg's stories
couldn't tell if people were with us or not
hard to keep track of what tool we were in
coordination across people

Next stop: London!