On 11.04.2018 14:06, Moore, Nathan T wrote:
Giving a talk on SWC in a day or two. How long has the code of conduct
(in any form) been a part of SWC workshops? I'd be grateful for any
short histories you can share.
The Code of Conduct committee was established in August of 2016. We
worked on
Mar 2018, at 20:36, Karin Lagesen <karin.lage...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who pointed me in the right direction!
Karin
On 28.03.2018 21:33, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:12:16 +0200
Karin Lagesen <karin.lage...@gmail.com> wrote:
O
On 02.04.2018 15:21, Byron Smith wrote:
Here is a question subset that I've used in the past: SOC-27314056
It's a slight variation on Michelle Berry's original: SOC-18380285
Also check out the etherpad of socrative quizzes [1], which I found my
way back to using the (always relevant)
Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who pointed me in the right
direction!
Karin
On 28.03.2018 21:33, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:12:16 +0200
Karin Lagesen <karin.lage...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28.03.2018 17:43, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2
On 28.03.2018 17:43, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:48:35 +0200
Karin Lagesen <karin.lage...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
I'm using the workshop setup as a template for a one-day workshop
we're running here in Oslo. However, I cannot figure out how to edit
the sc
Hi!
I'm using the workshop setup as a template for a one-day workshop we're
running here in Oslo. However, I cannot figure out how to edit the
schedule for the workshop. Could anybody point me to where I could find
info on that?
Karin
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I find myself in the position of being a work package leader for a EU
project. I don't know any of the ones that will work with me in this
work package, and they all work at different institutions all over
Europe. To boot, I have never managed a EU work package before.
Thus, I am looking for
On 30.03.2017 18:15, Carol Willing wrote:
[snip]
Unlike nano, Atom was designed for people familiar with web browsing,
and it could be argued that nano while seeming simple to some is more
difficult to those that have grown up using the web browser daily.
Having taught many students in different
On 29.01.2017 22:43, Greg Wilson wrote:
Some on this list may be interested in an unusual practical application
of their mathematical and data analysis skills:
" A 5-day summer school will be offered at Tufts University from August
7-11, 2017, with the principal purpose of training
I thought I'd explain a bit about version control and git for my group
next week. Does anybody of a lecture that explains the principle and how
git works that I could either borrow from or be inspired by? (not too
interested in the actual commands, but what it does - that's going to be
the
...is there any way that this list could appear under the url
pad.software-carpentry.org?
Just spent 10 minutes looking for the pad-of-pads..
Karin
On 21.12.2016 16:36, Tracy Teal wrote:
Hi Lex,
Thanks, this is a great idea. I'm always trying to remember where they
are too. Although it's
nses.
Elizabeth
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Karin Lagesen <karin.lage...@gmail.com
<mailto:karin.lage...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Elizabeth, thanks for a very informative answer!
You wouldn´t happen to have some links to sites where a "normal"
person could rea
Elizabeth, thanks for a very informative answer!
You wouldn´t happen to have some links to sites where a "normal" person
could read about stuff like this so that those of us who tend to
accumulate data like this can actually make sense of these issues?
Karin (who is frequently confused
On 21.05.2016 18:59, Lex Nederbragt wrote:
Enjoy:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/girls-explain-how-boobs-menstruation-and-more-keep-them-coding-satirical-campaign-171503
Ah, now that explains _everything_.
Karin
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This is simply awesome (both the stats and the results of them)! I was
convinced we were losing a lot more people than that!
karin
On 20/05/16 17:51, Greg Wilson wrote:
Following up on Wednesday's post about instructor training stats [1],
Erin Becker (Data Carpentry's new Associate Director)
I am looking to set up an institute independent email list. Anybody got
ideas for good, free, no advertising, non-spamming and
non-sell-your-emails list host servers out there?
Karin
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On 13/04/16 17:03, Jonah Duckles wrote:
Raniere,
No, I have never experienced that misconception.
I have actually encountered the same kind of thing, that person for some
reason got the understanding that we were teaching them some sort of
statistics software.
Kairn
On 29.02.2016 16:24, Lex Nederbragt wrote:
Hi,
This blog post:
http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.no/2016/02/from-reproducibility-to-over.html
seems like a perfect example of how many people will think. And I
can’t really come up with some compelling evidence to convince this
person he is
You also have a SWC pitch that you can use here:
http://software-carpentry.org/workshops/pitch/
Karin
On 20/02/16 18:41, David Dotson wrote:
Perfect! Thanks!
David
On 02/20/2016 10:39 AM, Rémi E. wrote:
Hi David,
There is this:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/slideshows
but the numbers,
I have for some time wanted a "Resources" section on our website, with
stuff that our community can use. IMO, this section would include a SWC
pitch, logos, other advertising material, install instructions, debug
install stuff, and other mostly static things that we, the community,
would need
On 15.02.2016 12:14, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) wrote:
I would have also liked the ability to vote for N candidates (where N =
number of positions being elected). Otherwise, I feel that I have to
vote strategically to get a good selection of candidates (i.e. is there
someone I think will get a lot of
I just wanted to give people a slight heads up regarding setting up a
room in a classroom setting. I recently taught in a really fancy room
where the tables had both network and power in them. They were set up in
a U shape, so as per usual, the first thing we did was to set them up in
rows so
Just wanted to say thanks for the great suggestions!
Will try to incorporate and see what happens :)
karin
On 12/3/2015 4:23 PM, Tyson Whitehead wrote:
On December 3, 2015 10:24:44 AM Karin Lagesen wrote:
The more I teach, the more I realize that I am not really able to convey what
The more I teach, the more I realize that I am not really able to convey
what a for loop does to everybody. Do any of you have a metaphor or
something that you use for teaching it? I explain about variables and
collections, and the body of the loop, and I show examples, but I am
still not able
Hi!
I am an instructor for a workshop that for various reasons got pushed to
2016. Now I am left with what is an outdated workshop webpage. I'd like
to update it, but I don't quite know how to do that short of effectively
setting up the workshop webpages all over again.
Suggestions?
Karin
Hi!
I am now helping a host advertise for the workshop I am teaching for
them. Is there a standard boiler plate text somewhere that can be used
for this? You know, a little bit about SWC, content of course, practical
things ++.
In a similar vein, do we have things like "what is SWC"
On 11/17/2015 5:58 PM, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
Le 2015-11-17 11:15, Martin Bähr a écrit :
it is not the users fault that filesystems were not designed for their
needs,
and while the users should be taught how to cope with this, i consider
their
expectation that having 2.5M files in a
On 11.11.2015 16:06, Jonah Duckles wrote:
Did you restart the shell and try again? If you have the shell open
while you run the installer the PATH will not update.
Tried that, hoped that it would work, but didn't.
Karin
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On 11/9/2015 6:01 PM, Raniere Silva wrote:
I am testing out setting up for a shell, git, python workshop on a windows
machine. I am following these guidelines here:
http://software-carpentry.org/workshops/setup.html
Maybe https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/pull/1161 will avoid problems in
On 09.11.2015 17:20, Ethan White wrote:
On 11/09/2015 10:35 AM, Karin Lagesen wrote:
I am testing out setting up for a shell, git, python workshop on a
windows machine. I am following these guidelines here:
http://software-carpentry.org/workshops/setup.html
First, are these the latest up
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
One of the things that I always emphasize before and during the workshop
is that my aim is not to teach them to be programmers, but to make it
less scary if and when they do decide to learn things more in depth. My
main goal is to demystify programming. That way, it becomes less about
Dundee
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One of the things that I always emphasize
On 20.03.2015 18:00, W. Trevor King wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:19:50AM -0600, Ethan White wrote:
At the Utah State workshop this week we tried out a different approach
(at least compared to what I've seen in the past) to teaching the
collaboration section of the git lesson. We had two
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