Re: [discuss] How can we scale up Carpentries training at universities?

2018-10-03 Thread April Wright via discuss
Hi Lex, Can you say more on this point?: >⁃How to keep the quality of instruction, and instructor motivation, > high, if workshops become organized like regular courses? > *If the concern is new instructors not being experienced:* What about offering a "course" section and an

Re: [discuss] Slide of Joel Grus' JupyterCon Talk "I Don't Like Notebooks"

2018-08-29 Thread April Wright via discuss
We keep an introduction to the notebook in the 00 lesson of the Data Carpentry python materials (spider also covered, courtesy of Katrin Tirol). There’s also a more comprehensive intro to notebooks, contributed by Maxim Belkin, in the extras for that repo. I know other workshops (Like SWC python)

Re: [discuss] Slide of Joel Grus' JupyterCon Talk "I Don't Like Notebooks"

2018-08-28 Thread April Wright via discuss
Hi all- I agree with what Christina said. Someone upthread asked if the notebook was meant to compete with MatLab. But with novices, our competition isn't MatLab - it's Excel. You can open Excel, subset data, and plot it. Most of the learners I work with have experience doing that. They know