On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, Maneesha Sane wrote:
> I've used Microsoft Azure when I've been worried about people getting > everything set up right on their own machines. With a free > Microsoft/Hotmail account you get a Jupyter notebook, Python preloaded > with all the packages we teach (and ability to install more), a unix > shell, and git. It includes R and other languages as well (but I haven't > used those much so I can't speak to those). It requires steady internet > access but you don't need to worry about installing anything on your local > machine. > Once they leave the workshop, they don't have stuff installed on their > local machines but they still have their Microsoft account so they can > still access everything they did and continue working and learning. > https://notebooks.azure.com/ FWIW, such continuity is what drove us (years back) to use virtualbox image for our PyMVPA courses. It is somewhat important to assure that trainees have access to that "training environment" after the course ends so they would make it into their "work environment". Some temporary server in the cloud or institutional infrastructure doesn't provide such a continuity plan. In our case, even before for advent of the jupyterhub, people just installed virtualbox on their laptops (it did require our intervention in ~20% of cases) and we provided a virtualbox appliance with everything preinstalled (well, apt-get'ed, including ipython notebooks etc). Since we also wore our other hat of NeuroDebian we could even release fresh release a night before and make people run 'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade' to get all virtualboxes to the same uniform state with bleeding edge version. Upon completion of the course, people could either export the appliance and take it home on their USB sticks (if it was provided institutional laptops) or just carry laptops home with the complete teaching/working environment. Cheers, -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T963f4b806cda01a2-Md3739f565552998396f600c1 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
