Hi Steve,
According to our FAQ (http://software-carpentry.org/faq/#trademark), you
can call something a Software Carpentry workshop if:
- it covers our core topics (the Unix shell, version control with Git or
Mercurial, and modular programming in Python, R, or MATLAB)
- at least one certified instructor is teaching
- it runs our standard pre- and post-workshop assessments and sends us
the results
- it sends us summary statistics (at a minimum, the number of people who
attended, though we're grateful for contact info as well)
It doesn't matter to us whether the material is taught in two condensed
days, four half-days, or over several weeks, as long as it's covered.
We're also agnostic about whether the material is part of a
larger/longer course, or whether or not participants get course credit
from the host institution, though we always like to hear about
experiments in those directions.
I hope this helps, and we'd be happy to answer other questions,
Cheers,
Greg
On 2016-02-15 11:11 AM, Van Tuyl, Steven wrote:
Thanks for sending these, Ethan. What is the general protocol for
approval of this type of thing by SWC/DC? I suspect “approval” is not
the right word, but were one to explode the 2 day workshop into
component pieces of whatever flavor, can we still brand it as
“carpentry”? I’ve been considering this at my institution and, being a
new guy around here, don’t want to get into hot water with the SWC/DC
side.
steve
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From: Ethan White <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 8:07 AM
To: Adam Obeng <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>,
"[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Discuss] SWC material as a semester long course?
Hi Adam,
I have run semester long versions of SWC in Python
(http://www.programmingforbiologists.org/programming/) and Data
Carpentry in R (http://www.datacarpentry.org/semester-biology/). They
were 16 week classes, but with fewer hours per class, so they add up
to about the same number of contact hours. Hopefully those syllabi and
resources will be of some use.
Regarding funding, both of these courses were included in the broader
impacts type sections of grants, which made it possible to support
some of this work.
Best,
Ethan
On 02/15/2016 09:39 AM, Adam Obeng wrote:
To revive the topic:
I'm teaching a summer class at Columbia (3 hours/2x per week/6
weeks), which is titled "Social Statistics", but into which I plan to
integrate SWC material. This happened partly for fortuitous reasons:
I don't have a separate lab session, so I get a computer lab for
every class (why not live code); the existing syllabus uses Stata
(why not rewrite the whole thing as R in jupyter notebooks); I have
the same latitude over the "lab" content as I would if I was a TA.
Any advice on putting together a syllabus like this would be
appreciated! In particular, I'm trying to work out how much time to
spend on basic R concepts vs. cookbook recipes for particular
analyses. I don't think I'll have time for anything outside of the R
and Reproducible R lessons, except for a bare minimum shell stuff
(paths, etc.). I also anticipate that it might be a challenge to
separate out the stats and programming concepts, so that the students
understand that the R way of doing something is an implementation
rather than a definition.
Also, any heads-up on whether there is funding available somewhere to
support developing this?
Cheers,
Adam
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014, at 08:59 PM, Daniel Chen wrote:
Is anyone writing about this? otherwise I will since I asked the
question :p
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Greg Wilson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Would someone like to summarize this thread in a blog post?
I've learned a lot, and I'm sure other people would too...
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