Hi Greg, I really like that the new format enforces a logical structure the lessons, which I think will be especially useful for those developing new material.
I would like to suggest that, in addition to structure laid out in the blog post, each topic should have a corresponding challenge, whether that be at the end of the topic file, or in its own separate file. Regards, Scott On 15 October 2014 04:57, Greg Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've posted a fleshed-out version of a new template for Software Carpentry > lessons at http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/10/a-new-template- > for-lessons.html, and Gabriel Devenyi and Raniere Silva have posted > thoughts as well at http://software-carpentry.org/ > blog/2014/10/of-templates-and-metadata.html and > http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/10/yet-another- > template-for-lessons.html respectively. Comments on any and all of this > would be very welcome - we'd like to pin down the format in the next three > weeks so that we can spend November converting the 'bc' repo. We are > particularly interested in comments of the form "this is way too > complicated, I wouldn't do it". > > Cheers, > Greg > > -- > Greg Wilson > Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. > software-carpentry.org > -- ---- Scott Ritchie, BCompSci, MSc, Ph.D. Student, Medical Systems Biology Group, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, Australia W: http://www.inouyelab.org P: +61 3 9035 8916 E: [email protected] Research Community Co-ordinator for the Life Sciences & Software Carpentry Instructor for R and Data Science. Department of Research Platforms, The University of Melbourne. W: http://resbaz.tumblr.com/ W: http://software-carpentry.org/ President, Bioinformatics Graduate Student Association (BGSA), The University of Melbourne. W: http://bioinformatics.asn.au/bgsa/ F: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BGSA.melbourne/ E: [email protected] General Committee, COMBINE: The Regional Student Group (RSG) Australia; for the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) W: http://combine.org.au/ http://www.iscb.org/ ----
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