Hi Jon,
The data carpentry ecology lessons do try to use the same (or very similar) data. So doing OpenRefine -> SQL -> SQL from Python, works very well. In my opinion, when you are able to run these lessons one after the other, it makes the workshop more coherent for the learners, but the lessons are still complete and can stand on their own. Cheers, Carlos ________________________________ From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Pipitone <[email protected]> Sent: 20 August 2016 16:56:43 To: [email protected] Subject: [Discuss] Teaching lessons around a single example dataset/scenario Hi all, A few of us at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto have been teaching a series of Software Carpentry-like workshops[1] (actually some of them are exactly SWC workshops) over two weeks aimed more specifically at researchers in our organization. Much of what we teach is very introductory: what is programming, how to use the linux shell, a very basic intro to R focusing on statistics, a MATLAB and SPSS primer, using Photoshop, etc.. We do also get to a few more advanced topics in some workshops: e.g. doing fMRI analysis in python, using a compute cluster. We received feedback from learners and instructors that having more cohesion between the lessons would be really helpful to tie things together (currently we have a mixture of lessons with toy examples, more elaborate worked examples, and some with only descriptions/powerpoint), but it's disjointed: there isn't a theme or example dataset running through the workshops. Has anyone tried creating lessons for several different topics around a single example scenario? E.g. using Nelle's data from the Shell lectures[2] to also teach R, Python, Git, etc.. How has it worked out? Is there anything we should be wary of as we wander down this road? Thanks! Jon. [1] e.g. https://camh-scwg.github.io/compucool [2] http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/01-intro/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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