Hello,
I am working on a SWC workshop based on R that's coming up, and I had a
thought. For the R based workshops, we use RStudio, which also has a Git
interface, and in fact you can initialize and set up git for a project
through the RStudio Project interface. In fact this is a common workflow
for R users using RStudio.
While I understand the merits of doing some "bare metal" work on Git so
that learners can use Git in any environment, for R-based workshops,
would it make it easier for learners if we concentrated on the RStudio
git interface, so there's a bit more unification with RStudio being the
central tool.
There is also a bash-based command-line terminal available in current
RStudio versions, which could possible also be used for the shell lesson.
A big downside of this is modularity...we would have separate Git and
Shell lessons for the R-based and Python-based (and other
software-based) workshops. Strategically for the Carpentries, this might
not be a good thing.
Throwing this out there, and I'm willing to take leadership developing a
fully RStudio based workshop if we think this is a worthwhile enterprise.
Regards,
Abhijit Dasgupta
Teach what you know, and figure the rest out
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