Re: [Discuss] casto: Live coding in browser, using text editor.

2017-03-15 Thread Carlos Martinez Ortiz
Also related -- a few of us were working on a similar tool some time ago: https://github.com/c-martinez/shellther The idea behind Shellther is that it records your shell session and syncs it to an etherpad. So learners can keep up not only with what you type, but also what the terminal prints

Re: [Discuss] lecture on git/github for beginners?

2017-01-22 Thread Carlos Martinez Ortiz
Hi Karin, This is a nice story of how git works: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html It is a long read, but I feel it makes it really understandable. Hope it works for you. Best, Carlos From: Discuss on behalf of Karin Lagesen

Re: [Discuss] Teaching lessons around a single example dataset/scenario

2016-08-22 Thread Carlos Martinez Ortiz
Hi Jon, The data carpentry ecology lessons do try to use the same (or very similar) data. So doing OpenRefine -> SQL -> SQL from Python, works very well. In my opinion, when you are able to run these lessons one after the other, it makes the workshop more coherent for the learners, but the les

[Discuss] Etherpad APIKEY

2016-04-11 Thread Carlos Martinez Ortiz
Dear all, A few weeks ago I asked if anybody would be willing to try Shellther [1] while teaching a Software Carpentry shell lesson. We might have a first trial lesson next week, on a workshop organized in Utrecht, the Netherlands. BUT... we might need access to the software carpentry etherpa

Re: [Discuss] Logging console output

2016-03-14 Thread Carlos Martinez Ortiz
pproach to make either of these tools part of the 'standard' tools that all SWC instructors use. Cheers, Carlos From: W. Trevor King Sent: 14 March 2016 18:10 To: Maxime Boissonneault Cc: Carlos Martinez Ortiz; discuss@lists.software-carpentr

[Discuss] Logging console output

2016-03-13 Thread Carlos Martinez Ortiz
Dear all, Some time ago, Greg mentioned the need to have some way of saving everything what was typed on a terminal piping it to an etherpad. This would be useful during terminal-based lessons, in case learners are lagging behind. A few of us took up this challenge -- the result is Shellther.