Hi Leo- I've been at workshops where the instructors have run some of the first DC Python lessons in conjunction with the SWC lessons, or have run the first couple DC and using the SWC lessons for more advanced lessons. I know I should keep better track of how people are using the DC Python lessons (as a maintainer of those lessons), but little substitutions are tricky to find and track. I'm not sure about wholesale swapping. I'd love to hear from people who are doing swapping of lesson sessions - how did it go, what did you do, were all your needs met - if those folks want to file issues on the DC Python repo.
To the real question: Can you do that and call it SWC? I don't know the answer to that. This discussion came up a bit in some of the merger docs as something that needs clarification. DC has the requirement that 3 lessons in a lesson group be taught to be a DC workshop, SWC says "structured programming in R or Python". To me, teaching the DC lesson would meet that requirement. We go over all the things that SWC lessons typically get to (iteration, storing data in variables, multiple files), but the tools are different and the context is different. A lot of SWC workshops don't get all the way to debugging or command line programs, but these two lessons could be run after the DC lessons. Hopefully someone else can weigh in and we can clarify this going forward. --a On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Leo Browning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the mailing list, so please let me know if there is anything I > should change about the way I am posting. > > I would like to table the idea of using DC's python for ecology module in > place of SWC's Python module in a SWC workshop. From what I understand the > only reason not to is that the curriculum for SWC is fixed. > > I have found the DC Python lesson to be more relevant and applicable to > learners, giving them the tools that they need to be able to work with > data, rather than spending a large amount of time on general programming > concepts that they would pick up along the way as the SWC Python lesson > does. > > We are considering dropping the SWC branding and running the most > applicable lessons, but i am reluctant to do so as I view the SWC pedagogy > as excellent in general. Rather, I would like to hear from the community as > to why there is this restriction, to better inform our decision regarding > workshop content. > > Regards > > Leo Browning > PhD Candidate with the MacDiarmid Institute > School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, > Victoria University of Wellington > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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