Adam I may or may not have mentioned this:

Greg told me a *long* time ago that Dan Ellis [1] from electrical
engineering at CU is also involved with SWC.
I tried to set up a more formal workshop system with him in the past, but
I'm not at CU anymore.

>From the blog post about this topic [2], Jenny mentioned that teaching
rmarkdown and reproducible documents is a great way to get people to do
analysis and have it published on github/the web.
Makes the entire thing very motivating for students.

- Dan

[1] https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/
[2]
http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2016/02/swc-as-a-university-course.html


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Greg Wilson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]>[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 8:07 AM
> To: Adam Obeng < <[email protected]>[email protected]>, "
> [email protected]" <
> [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/>
> 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]> 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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