Hi Christina, I usually teach unit testing and reproducible workflows for the second afternoon, with the reproducible workflow exercise acting as a capstone - I've taught this probably a half dozen times, and many students have told me that it was their favorite lesson.
http://datasci.kitzes.com/lessons/python/reproducible_workflow.html I've also sometimes reserved an hour at the end of the workshop for an AMA style question and answer with all of the instructors and helpers up at the front of the room, where students have a chance to ask questions about anything that we covered or about particular issues that they're having. This has also been very well received. Best, Justin -- Justin Kitzes Berkeley Institute for Data Science University of California, Berkeley [email protected] On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Karen Cranston <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is one that Ethan White and I used at bash + python + git + SQL > workshop last week: > > https://github.com/kcranston/R-SQL-capstone > > This was for a fairly savvy group, and most didn't make it all the way > through (but we got great comments back afterwards). > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:48 PM Kara Woo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christina, > > Here is the capstone exercise that Karl Broman and I provided for the last > afternoon of a workshop (R, not Python, but maybe it'll still help with > ideas): > https://github.com/karawoo/2015-04-27-wsu/blob/gh-pages/syllabus/capstone.md > > Karl taught the basics of knitr/R Markdown and then the capstone was to > create a reproducible report of the Gapminder dataset. Most people didn't get > through the whole thing, but there was enough that the more advanced learners > didn't run out of things to work on. > > Kara > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:35 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 > > -- > Christina Koch - Research Computing Facilitator, > University of Wisconsin - Madison, Center for High Throughput Computing > Advanced Computing Initiative; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; ACI-REF > [email protected] // (608) 316 - 4041 // tinyurl.com/ChristinaCalendarCHTC > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
