Hi Christina;

It has been a few months since I taught a workshop, so this might be
outdated. My comments relate to the mid-2015 version of the
python-inflammation lesson. I have found that that lesson is too long to
fit into a single quarter, so have experimented with augmenting the lesson
content slightly, and spreading it over 2 quarters. The last workshop I
lead was a 4 mornings event:
https://douglatornell.github.io/2015-09-22-ubc/.
<https://douglatornell.github.io/2015-09-22-ubc/>

On the 4th morning we covered the Creating Functions section
<http://anakarinarm.github.io/python-novice-inflammation-2015-09-24-ubc/06-func.html>,
an augmented section about Errors and Exceptions
<http://anakarinarm.github.io/python-novice-inflammation-2015-09-24-ubc/07-errors.html>,
and a section on Command-line Programs
<http://anakarinarm.github.io/python-novice-inflammation-2015-09-24-ubc/10-cmdline.html>
in which one of the big objectives it to lead the learners through the
process of moving from Notebooks to Python modules written in a text editor.

So, not really a capstone, but a deliberate approach to the "advanced"
material in python-inflammation that seems to work well for learners coming
to SWC from a background of minimal programming experience in other
languages (mostly Matlab and a little R).

Hope this helps...

Doug

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:36 AM Christina Koch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm teaching on the second afternoon of an upcoming (Python) Software
> Carpentry workshop and am figuring out what to do on the afternoon of the
> second day.
> I already have some options, but if anyone on this list has "capstone" or
> "special topics" materials that they've put together for the final quarter
> of a workshop, even if it's super unorganized/casual, I'd love to see it,
> both to get some ideas and hopefully to avoid reinventing the wheel.
>
> Thanks,
> Christina
>
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> University of Wisconsin - Madison, Center for High Throughput Computing
> Advanced Computing Initiative; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; ACI-REF
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