Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, at 02:28 PM, Karin Lagesen wrote: > > ...is there some statistics on this? I think that errors would be a lot > less scary if we could show how much of their time even those that code > for a living spend on debugging their code. > Poking around on programmers.stackexchan

Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-29 Thread Karin Lagesen
On 10/29/2015 7:40 AM, Matthew Gidden wrote: A big +1 for explicitly introducing failure during the learning process. I recently taught a course for people brand new to programming. There were some explicit failures I added to some lessons, and I still underestimated just how uncomfortable they w

[Discuss] A week-long intermediate/advanced bio Software Carpentry - looking for *instructors*.

2015-10-29 Thread C.Titus Brown
Hi all, As per our first effort, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2015-small-batch.html angus.readthedocs.org/en/2015/week3.html we’re going to try it again! We will be running a week-long set of Carpentry-style tutorials on genomics from Feb 6-12, 2016, at the Bodega Marine Lab. (BML is equally i

Re: [Discuss] Report: Software Carpentry 2015-10-27-28

2015-10-29 Thread Laurent Duchesne
Hi Raniere, I did install nano with the installer in a Windows VM but had an input /output error when running it from Git bash. I did not have time to investigate while we were teaching but we'll definitely have a look before our next workshop. Laurent On Oct 28, 2015 10:06 PM, Raniere Silva