Dear All, On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:45:34PM -0700, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks -- > > I'm not a scientist, but have been involved in informal education through > Wikipedia for a long time (I helped run the Wikimedia Foundation for 7 > years). In recent weeks I've become more interested in the art & science of > teaching how to code, in particular. I love what Software Carpentry is > doing and look forward to lurking on and occasionally participating on this > list. > > I'm curious how you all keep up with the huge amount of new tutorials and > materials that are being produced on an ongoing basis.
As a short and blunt answer: I don't. It's an impossible task. Recently, I gave some in-house training and googled things like bash tutorials, to look for materials worthwhile recommending and also to get an idea of what students will find if they turn to Google for help. Regarding recommended material I'm really grateful for the SWC shell lessons, so many thanks to all who contributed to these on this occasion. Another thing I noticed is that there's an infinite amount of advice out there that is posted with the best helpful intentions but limited consideration for generalisation to the requirements of readers who don't work in exactly the same environment as the writer. Personally, I think that this indicates our field is still very much maturing, and I also think / hope that by enabling people to develop and also to reversely engineer commands themselves, SWC also enables them to make critical use of such resources. In the very long run, this may result in an evolution towards having a smaller number of good generic tutorials around. Best regards, Jan > For example, I > recently discovered http://nodeschool.io/ , which is an excellent, > ever-growing set of JavaScript resources specifically for JavaScript / node > JS development. I am now literally watching changes to their website repo > to watch for any new tutorials they release, and am following a few > relevant folks on Twitter. But that doesn't seem very sustainable. > > Is there an existing place a lot of you follow - a blog, a Twitter account, > a Reddit subreddit, etc. - to keep up to date, and/or to post new > resources, other than this list itself? If not, would folks here be > interested in creating something like that? A subreddit might be a good > place, and I've made a small start at [1] if folks find that approach > useful. > > Erik > > [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/learnyouit > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: [email protected] | | WWW: http://www.jtkim.dreamhosters.com/ | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
