Re: [Discuss] SWC for high school (16-18)

2016-05-03 Thread Sean Davis
> On May 3, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > On 3 May 2016 at 21:45, Josh Greenhalgh wrote: > | Hi people of SWC, > | > | I would like to try teaching SWC material to high school students - those > doing physics/maths/computing at A-level (students between 16 and 18 in > Engla

Re: [Discuss] SWC for high school (16-18)

2016-05-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 3 May 2016 at 21:45, Josh Greenhalgh wrote: | Hi people of SWC, | | I would like to try teaching SWC material to high school students - those doing physics/maths/computing at A-level (students between 16 and 18 in England). Has anyone ever attempted this? Are they perhaps too far away from

[Discuss] SWC for high school (16-18)

2016-05-03 Thread Josh Greenhalgh
Hi people of SWC, I would like to try teaching SWC material to high school students - those doing physics/maths/computing at A-level (students between 16 and 18 in England). Has anyone ever attempted this? Are they perhaps too far away from doing “research” for it to be of any use to them? What

[Discuss] using dotfiles as an introduction to git?

2016-05-03 Thread Eric Ma
Hey everybody, Yesterday, I started exploring version control & backup of my dotfiles using git & github. I then went on to share that with my colleagues, who have much less experience than I do at the command line. One of them liked it; she stated that the colours made it easier to distinguish be

Re: [Discuss] "Stealing Google's coding practices for academia"

2016-05-03 Thread Neil Chue Hong (SSI)
> I've often heard it said that research code doesn't need as much unit > testing or code review as scientific code, but it isn't obvious to me > that the consequences of error are less in research code. Or better > put, it is obvious to me that that is so, but that is not a sign of > good health