I like "One of the cornerstones of Software and Data Carpentry is our code-along method of teaching."
But I also like (inspired by David Martin) "One of the cornerstones of Software and Data Carpentry is participatory live coding" (or "our participatory live coding method of teaching"). The second maybe for more formal publications, and the first, with "code-alongs", for less formal occasions? Lex > On 22 Oct 2018, at 16:59, David Martin (Staff) <d.m.a.mar...@dundee.ac.uk> > wrote: > > participatory demonstration? > > From: Lex Nederbragt [mailto:lex.nederbr...@ibv.uio.no] > Sent: 22 October 2018 3:22 PM > To: Discuss list Carpentries <discuss@lists.carpentries.org> > Subject: Re: [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or? > > Thanks for the 'code-along' suggestion. I like it, it sounds great! However, > I am not sure how to use it in practice to describe our teaching method as it > seems to be meant as adjective, not a noun. For example, we currently write: > > "One of the cornerstones of Software and Data Carpentry teaching is live > coding" > > We can’t hardly change that to ‘is code-along’. We could use ‘is a code-along > style of interactive programming’, but that becomes too long again… ‘is > code-along sessions’ doesn’t work too well either. Oh, and ‘is code-along > live coding’ sounds weird. > > So I like it as an adjective describing the style of teaching, but feel I’m > still looking for a better noun, or better adjective between ‘live’ and > ‘coding’. > > Lex > > > > On 15 Oct 2018, at 17:24, Hoyt, Peter <peter.r.h...@okstate.edu> wrote: > > +1 > > Peter Hoyt > > On 10/15/2018 10:12 AM, Erin Becker wrote: > I love code-along! > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:19 AM Jeremy Metz via discuss > <discuss@lists.carpentries.org> wrote: > +1 for code-along - short but descriptive, and also informal and fun sounding! > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 13:04, Adriana De Palma <a.de-pa...@nhm.ac.uk> wrote: > Code-along. As in sing-along. As in fun ☺ > > From: Lex Nederbragt [mailto:lex.nederbr...@ibv.uio.no] > Sent: 15 October 2018 12:49 > To: Discuss list Carpentries <discuss@lists.carpentries.org> > Subject: [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or? > > Hi, > > I have for a while been thinking about the term ‘live-coding’ as we use it as > our teaching approach in workshops. What we mean is a form of teaching > described in the instructor training material as “work[ing] through the > lesson material, typing in the code or instructions, with the workshop > participants following along”. But there are other meanings of the term, for > example, some people will ‘live code’ a software demo during a conference, > without the participants doing any coding themselves. Apparently it even can > be done as a performing arts form (creating sounds, images, etc)- see the > wikipedia entry on ‘Live coding'. > > I am looking for a term that better describes what we do. Examples I have > considered: > > - live follow-along coding; however, follow-along does not imply learners > being active, they could just as well sit back, relax and follow along > closely (note that the description from the instructor training material uses > this wording also) > - live interactive coding; however, there is not much interaction unless for > any truly interactive exercises > - live together-coding or live collaborative coding; however, we are not > really coding together or collaboratively, learners merely mirror the > instructor (except for when they do exercises); still, these are currently my > favourites > > Any other suggestions? > > Best, > > Lex > > > > > -- > Associate Director, The Carpentries > Pronouns: she/her/hers > > > > The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 > The Carpentries / discuss / see discussions + participants + delivery options > Permalink ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T69368b0ceffc20b9-M49379b9bd0536d9a382942ea Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
