On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Steven Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > In reading the minutes, it sounds like SWC has ceded the novice education to > Data Carpentry?
Interesting find. I didn't realize this decision had been made. Last I checked, the majority of SWC workshops use our novice lessons. Has the definition of novice changed? https://github.com/swcarpentry/board/blob/92830c64cf7483800883a8eeace835b0c0486143/minutes/minutes-2015-02-26.md#31-proposal-for-weeklong-class I guess I should have read the blog post below more carefully. http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/11/congratulations-to-data-carpentry.html Why are all the lessons linked to on the SWC website to our novice lessons when we are supposed to be teaching intermediate learners? http://software-carpentry.org/lessons.html As defined in the reorganization from 2013, a novice is an absolute beginner. "Each will contain sub-directories called novice (for absolute beginners) and intermediate (for people with some previous experience)." http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2013/11/reorganizing.html Only the novice lessons have been developed, and not the intermediate. So either SWC is teaching novices, or we did a poor job creating novice lessons. John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
