Peter, and all if you are interested: https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/git-Rstudio-course/
-Paula On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 07:35, Peter Humburg <[email protected]> wrote: > We have started teaching a modified version of the R DC curriculum that > teaches Git instead of SQL (because that seems to be more relevant to the > majority of our audience). We rely entirely on the RStudio git GUI for > this. Although that is a pretty limited interface but not having to learn > an additional tool (or command line usage) helps to make git more > accessible. Another change we have made is that we don't teach git as a > separate lesson. There is a brief introduction to git but the majority of > it is taught by demonstrating its use throughout the R part of the course. > Based on feedback from the learners this has helped to reduce confusion and > made git more accessible. Admittedly, the git part of the course covers > only the very basics but the hope is that it will get a larger proportion > of the learners to actually use git. I don't have any hard data on this but > based on what they say immediately after the course, the proportion of > participants who are considering using git certainly seems to be higher > than after an SWC course that uses the standard git module. > > Cheers, > Peter > > *Dr Peter Humburg* > > Statistician > > *Faculty of Human Sciences* > > AHH Level 5 > > Macquarie University NSW 2109 > > T: +61 2 9850 9848 > > E: [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Brooks Kieffer, Elizabeth Jamene <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 17 October 2019 3:21 AM > *To:* discuss <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [discuss] Insight on Data Carpentry and Git? > > > Hi everyone, > > I’m reading the Baker *et al* article about the initial instance of > Library Carpentry (Baker, J., *et al*, (2016). Library Carpentry: > Software skills training for library professionals. *LIBER Quarterly, 26*(3), > 141–162. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10176 > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/b-LfCk815RCr8x1jU2B1k9?domain=doi.org>). > In the Next Steps section, the authors mention learners’ struggles with Git > during this workshop, and note that other curricula exclude Git because of > its difficulty. Specifically: “…this is a finding of comparable training > programmes and is a reason for Data Carpentry not teaching Git and GitHub” > (p. 158). > > > > There isn’t a citation for the information about why Data Carpentry > doesn’t teach Git and GitHub, and the Teal *et al* article describing > Data Carpentry doesn’t mention Git (Teal, T. K., * et al*, (2015). Data > Carpentry: Workshops to Increase Data Literacy for Researchers. *International > Journal of Digital Curation*, *10*, 135–143. > https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v10i1.351 > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tGVBClx1OYUA0Qp8f9VHEt?domain=doi.org> > ). > > > > I would appreciate any insight and/or links to discussions specifically > about this decision to exclude Git from Data Carpentry. I’m not interested > in debating the decision. Rather, I’m working on a paper on teaching Git; > documentation of this discussion would be helpful supporting information > for the paper’s opening contention that Git is difficult to both teach and > learn (something that’s not news to this group!). > > > > Thanks very much in advance, > > Jamene > > > > Jamene Brooks-Kieffer > > Data Services Librarian > > University of Kansas Libraries > > 785-864-5238 > > [email protected] > > she/her/hers > > > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T914cb72e74e12319-Md5e5bf51f169d5d158430ffd> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T914cb72e74e12319-Ma7edd99ac0d943c2d8db62b1 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
