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Wrapping Up in Halifax

· 17 July, 2012

Saint Mary's University Software Carpentry

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Things went pretty well here in Halifax—thanks to the local helpers, and to Justin Ely from STScI for coming up to teach. Next stop, Scarborough!

Good

Bad

Pedagogy
Work more efficiently (shell)
Support staff
pair computing / working in groups on problems
Version Control / logging
Planning workflow methods
provenance
data processing
website
citations
passing on good habits
good teaching tools
presentation style
post-its
stories
scheduling
transfer concepts to science
"practical" code practices were very portable

too fast/too short
more on code organization
more handouts / outline
svn binary examples / how to create repository
how do i organize repository?
wanted more background on everything
testing too confusing
incomplete system requirements for examples
stories
greg works too fast / code disappears on run
how to put all together?
public relations/ getting the work out
introduce everyone and helpers
Some people were wait-listed and people didn't show up
use teaching tools more
contrived examples