Hello! We are running an SWC course at Manchester as a part of a one week training for MSc students in Clinical Bioinformatics. We have 2.5 days for SWC and then the students will work on a small programming task in teams. The idea is that they will need to grab some XML files, parse them and then do some rather simple manipulation with the outputs.
At the end of the SWC (we'll be using Python) we want to show them how to use a _simple_ library for XML. So before I dive into Google, I though I'd be lazy and ask the SWC community: 1) Has anyone created an SWC module on XML? If yes, can you point me to it? 2) Which Python library from XML would you recommend? 3) Do you have any other suggestions? Before you jump on me saying "What the heck are you doing?Software Carpentry doesn't teach XML." I'll just say that the goal is _not_ to focus on XML. We want to show them how to use Python libraries. XML is an example and in the case of this particular audience, it is a better example than NumPy and SciPy (we had lots of discussions with prof. Andy Brass who runs the whole course). We will deliver the standard SWC but the remaining 2 days they are supposed to try flying on their own, working in groups writing a small program using what we taught them (structured programming, version control etc.) So, halp? Anyone? Many thanks. Aleksandra _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
