G'day Software Carpentry colleagues I am planning on running a virtual "python programming" workshop next week for some of my institutional researchers.
With the resent discussions on the mailing list talking about alternative python lessons, I am just wondering what the consensus is with which lesson I should be using to teach python? This will be the first time I will be teaching the python lesson, having previous taught the Unix shell and "R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis", as well as recently participating in the GIT lesson. Having done a bit of python programming in the past and contributed minor source code to some open source projects, I am just going through the materials and brushing up my python skills as I am a little rusty. Anyway, I am writing this message to get some feedback on which lesson people would recommended for absolute beginners? As currently I can see the following python lessons: * Programming with Python - http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation (has this recently been updated?) * Introduction to Programming in Python - https://biologyguy.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/ * Python as a Second Language - https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-second-language/ (But I understand this lesson isn't really for beginners)! * Any others I might have missed? I know there are some on the data carpentry site, but those appear to be domain specific, rather than a general programming lesson. I have managed to install anaconda3-4.2.0 on my HPC system today and will allow my users to use this system if they don't wish to install the software on their local computer. I believe this will assist with people using a standardise setup. I should note that my experience in programming to date has been more using a text editor and then running the python interpreter, but I have been playing around with jupyter today and wondering what the feedback has been from "beginner programmers" using jupyter compared to using a text editor and running python manually? Any feedback and experiences you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jason [cid:[email protected]]<https://www.cqu.edu.au/> Jason Bell Senior Research Technologies Officer | Information and Technology Directorate CQUniversity eResearch Analyst | Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) CQUniversity Australia, Building 19 Room 1.07, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton QLD 4702 P +61 7 4930 9229 | X 59229 | M 0409 630 897 | E [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [cid:[email protected]]<https://www.cqu.edu.au/social-media> This communication may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this in error, please return to sender and delete. CRICOS: 00219C | RTO Code 40939
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