One more suggestion: I had a similar situation and essentially inundated my intern with self-teaching links (starting with SWC). To her credit, she sucked it all up like a sponge and was putting up IPython notebooks of *useful* pandas analyses of our data within a few weeks. I recently asked her what her favourite self-learning tutorial/collection was, and she pointed me to this one:
http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/learning-paths-data-science-business-analytics-business-intelligence-big-data/learning-path-data-science-python/ I hope that helps! Juan. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Waldman, Simon M <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all the comments on- and off-list. I’m travelling at present, > but will look through them when I have time, and I’m sure I’ll be able to > improve. > > > > *From:* Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Waldman, Simon M > *Sent:* 21 May 2015 11:28 > *To:* Software Carpentry Discussion > *Subject:* [Discuss] Teaching programming from scratch > > > > This is perhaps slightly off-topic; apologies if it’s considered too far > off. > > > > As I understand it, SWC generally assumes that it’s teaching people with > basic (often self-taught) programming skills, and adding good practice. > > > > In supervising a young intern, I recently found myself in a position of > teaching somebody who had never done any coding and did not have the basic > ideas of variables, arrays (and indexing into them), functions and their > arguments, etc. I confess that I didn’t do very well with it, which led to > some frustration all round. > > > > Can anybody recommend resources on good approaches to take here? > > > > Many thanks > > Simon > > > > -- > > Simon Waldman > > PhD Researcher, ICIT / Heriot-Watt University > > Email: [email protected] Skype: swaldman-work > > > > > > > We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join > us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please > see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to > apply. > > Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity > number SC000278. > > > > We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join > us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please > see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to > apply. > > Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity > number SC000278. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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