Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the link --- that previous thread points to a lot of
interesting, "high-level" material for background. I will be
incorporating pointers to the material in the talk.
What I am looking for specifically is somewhat different, though. The
target audience for the talk is a group of students who have only ever
used GUIs on their computers --- they have no mental model that things
can be done differently, using the command line, scripting, version
control, and so on.
My question is, can I do introduce the "basic" tools (as taught in a
Software Carpentry workshop --- shell, version control, programming) in
an 1/2-hour slot? As I said, the idea I have been toying with is to do a
brief demonstration of these tools to have the students see them "in
action".
I could of course adapt bits of the relevant Software Carpentry lessons
for this. However, I am not sure whether this a useful thing to do,
given that I only have a 1/2-hour slot. If anyone has experience doing
this, or thoughts why this can or cannot work, it would be great to hear
them!
Thanks again,
Laura
On 09/22/2017 12:16 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On Fri, September 22, 2017 01:44, Laura Fortunato wrote:
I am looking for input on how to introduce core concepts about
reproducibility, effective research computing, etc to complete novices
in a 1/2-hour slot. Any ideas/suggestions/materials welcome!
Check out the list Archives
http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-March/subject.html#start
for the thread with the Subject "Reproducible science". Laura.
There was some interesting "stuff", by way of links to material
that espouses the high-level concepts, in that short thread, even
if you don't find yourself agreeing with all of the implemenations
of the individual approaches.
You may be able to canabalise some of that for your purposes.
---
Kevin M. Buckley
eScience Consultant
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
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*Laura Fortunato* || Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology |
University of Oxford || External Professor | Santa Fe Institute ||
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