To close the loop, I did two activities as "capstones":

- since I didn't get to the command line scripts part of the python lesson
(as I'd planned), I did an hour-ish variation from that lesson.  (Lengthy)
notes are here:

   - https://github.com/ChristinaLK/swc-lessons/tree/master/script_capstone


- another hour-ish activity introducing them to pull requests (*sans*
branching).  Upstream repository was:

   - https://github.com/crazapplejuice/flags

I don't like the "toy" aspect of creating flags, but I wanted something
that would be fun, relatively easy even for pure novices, and not too
taxing at the end of a long two days.  Also where everyone could do
something different, so the pull requests wouldn't collide.  :P  A nice
variation (I just thought of) might be if you taught a tiny bit of markdown
(R folks, esp) in the first half of the afternoon  and then had everyone
create their own mini report to submit as a PR.

Thanks to everyone who responded!  I took bits and pieces from several of
you.  :)

Christina


On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:35 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
>



-- 
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
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