Learn How to Teach People to Program

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are very pleased to announce that we will be running two one-day workshops on how to teach programming during the PyCon sprints in Montreal on April 14 and 15, 2014. The workshops will be led by Greg Wilson, who will show participants how to use basic concepts from educational psychology and instructional design when teaching beginners how to code. The event is open to everyone, not just to PyCon attendees; please register here, or mail us if you have any questions.

This event is just one of several we are running in conjunction with PyCon. You or your colleagues may also be interested in:

• our two-day software skills for scientists and engineers workshop on April 14-15;
• our two-day workshop on software skills for librarians, also on April 14-15;
• our one-day master class on next-generation sequencing led by Prof. Titus Brown on April 14; or
• our one-day introduction to programming in R led by Prof. Ramnath Vaidyanathan on April 15.

There are also still a few spots open in the full three-day version of the Software Carpentry instructor training course in Toronto on April 28-30.