Hi Josh, These are great questions. One good place to get started is to check out the advice contained in the bc repo on teaching at a bootcamp in general and teaching the novice Python lessons in particular.
https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/blob/master/novice/teaching/01-general.md https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/blob/master/novice/teaching/04-python.md And since you are likely not the only instructor having these questions (and also since many different instructors will have different answers), it may be best to keep this discussion continuing on this list so that everyone can learn from each others' experiences. Lastly, to address the question of time estimates for teaching the novice materials, I opened an Issue proposing to add time estimates for the lessons based on instructors' experiences. https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/689 Best, John On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Andrea Zonca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I think it would really be useful if out of this discussion came out a blog > post about "best practice" for teaching Python to novices. > Cheers, > Andrea > > On Aug 31, 2014 5:01 PM, "Adelman, Joshua Lev" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I’m going to be teaching the novice python section of a bootcamp for the >> first time in a couple of weeks and I was hoping to talk to a couple of >> people who have taught it recently, just to get a sense of pacing, what >> seemed to work well, topics covered and how much custom material you >> introduced beyond what is in the bc repo. >> >> If you have a little time to talk over the phone/skype/google hangout/etc >> in the coming days, please contact me off-list ([email protected]) and we can >> set up a time that’s convenient for you. >> >> Thanks, >> Josh >> >> -- >> Dr. Joshua L. Adelman >> Research Assistant Professor >> Department of Biological Sciences >> University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
