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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Jason Griffey grif...@gmail.com wrote:
The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people have absolutely no clue how
code translates into instructions for the magic glowing screen they look at
all day. Even a tiny bit of empowerment in that arena can make huge
On Feb 15, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Jason Griffey grif...@gmail.com wrote:
The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people have absolutely no clue how
code translates into instructions for the magic glowing screen they look at
all day. Even a
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Joe Hourcle
onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.govwrote:
Last year, we targeted the beginner's track as a sort of 'Perl
as a second language', assuming that you already knew the basic
concepts of programming (what's a variable, an array, a function,
etc.)
Would it be
I would suggest any attempt to teach people to code should begin with
Software Carpentry http://www.software-carpentry.org/about/90seconds.html.
An important point here is that there are many misconceptions about
programing and teaching that won't stand up to empirical investigation.
On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Lin, Kun wrote:
Wow, Interesting. But I am not fun of Perl. Is there other workshop?
I don't know of any full workshops in the area, but there are plenty
of monthly or semi-monthly meetings of different groups:
Python: http://dcpython.org/
R :
Yes please! I'd sign up in a heart beat.
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Hi Chris,
Well, BASIC style language is my first language. It is pretty easy for
someone to start with.
Kun
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Gray
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:17 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Great!
Thanks for providing such a useful information. I was actually want to learn
node.js. Anybody know anything about it?
Thanks
Kun Lin
Catholic University of America
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Sent:
Folks:
This 'everybody-should-learn-to-code' theme has gone around the block so
many times it's amazing that it still has legs. And I still don't buy it
(this was part of my keynote at C4L two years ago). I'm all for people
learning to code if they want to and think it will help them. But it
Kyle,
Along those lines, I'd say the first place I started learning to be a coder
was writing Excel functions. It was where I learned, in a very basic way,
the ideas of looping through a set, defining and using variables and
constants, etc. The first time I successfully completed an hours worth
Yes. Exactly. It's like saying you can't go to the doctor or hire a
lawyer without a bit of medical or law school. Doctors and lawyers need
to be able to explain what they're doing.
Another skill that would be useful is understanding databases, by which
I do not mean learning SQL. Too
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Hi,
Every year when hands shoot up in response to the question of how many of
you have attended all code4lib conferences?, I neglect to note who's
raising those hands.
Who are my fellow all-timers?
-Mike
Hi all,
Our irc channel (love or hate it, and for the record it's 2:1 in favor of
love at the moment) runs on the fantastic freenode service which is
maintained by the PDPC. They gladly take donations to help deal with
operational costs, which are of course non-zero sums of money.
On Feb 15, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Chris Gray wrote:
Yes. Exactly. It's like saying you can't go to the doctor or hire a lawyer
without a bit of medical or law school. Doctors and lawyers need to be able
to explain what they're doing.
Another skill that would be useful is understanding
Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen Coombs.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Michael J. Giarlo
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:
Hi,
Every year when hands shoot up in response to the question of how many of
you have attended all code4lib conferences?, I
Adding to what Chad says, most folks I know who work in offices that
have some of their functions in a computing environment (and that
includes libraries) get their first taste of programming by learning how
to use the macro language for whatever software supports their job.
Building on that
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov
wrote:
Last year, we targeted the beginner's track as a sort of 'Perl
as a second language', assuming that you already knew the basic
concepts of programming (what's a variable, an array, a function,
etc.)
Would it
Hi all
To follow-up on some of the threads about what to learn and where and when...
As a non-coder cataloguer I've found it useful to take advantage of our
Lynda.com accounts here and take a few courses to fill out my understanding of
what coders are doing and also to understand some concepts
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The University of the Pacific seeks a forward-thinking, innovative, results-
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Reporting to the Assistant Dean of the University Library, this position is
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I'm sitting at the hotel waiting for my airport shuttle and I'm looking
over the list of great presentations that were given at the conference this
year. Thanks to all the presenters and the hosts. As always, code4lib was a
fun, engaging and inspiring event.
Karen Coyle's nerd poetry was a fun
I'm so glad to be seeing this conversation happening. As we're
considering what things need to be taught and where and by whom, I hope
LITA can be a part of this as well.
I'm currently a member of the LITA Education Committee and Cody Hanson
is our LITA Board liaison. We're very interested
I am grinning ear to ear at my reference desk monitor right now. Well done!
Thanks for a great conference, everyone, and special thanks to Karen for
the nerd poetry - I hope that will be a gift that keeps on giving! I'm
certainly sharpening up my keyboard...
Megan
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:26
I'm an (n-2)-timer.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote:
Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen
Coombs.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Michael J. Giarlo
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:
Hi,
Every year when hands
On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm an (n-2)-timer.
You (n-2)-timing dog, you!
-Ross.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote:
Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen
Coombs.
On Fri,
On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Diane Hillmann
metadata.ma...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm all for people learning to code if they want to and think it will help
them. But it isn't
the only thing library people need to know, and in fact, the other
Hi,
I'm editing the video from code4lib into the sesison chunks.
What format should I export the videos as? Anything else I should be
aware of?
Thanks,
Tara
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Not to be snarky, but wouldn't the session on HTML5 video tell you what you
need to know?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.cawrote:
Hi,
I'm editing the video from code4lib into the sesison chunks.
What format should I export the videos as? Anything else
According to the HTML5 VIDEO NOW! talk: h.264 and WebM :)
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Tara Robertson
trobert...@langara.bc.cawrote:
Hi,
I'm editing the video from code4lib into the sesison chunks.
What format should I export the videos as? Anything else I should be aware
of?
Will these live in someone's IR? Uploaded to Youtube? Is file size and
storage and issue?
This is my first crack at video editing, happy to hand it over to you
Matthew if you want to take this on...
tara
On 15/02/2013 11:30 AM, Matthew Sherman wrote:
Not to be snarky, but wouldn't the
On Feb 15, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Matthew Sherman wrote:
Not to be snarky, but wouldn't the session on HTML5 video tell you what you
need to know?
Code it in 3+ different formats, and stack your tags in hope that
you've used enough different codecs that the browser actually
supports one of them?
And this kind of ties into my question at the conf about are we archiving
our stuff. Sorry, Mark, I didn't get a chance to chat with you about this
and more specifically what I was talking about. But this really falls
inline with what I was wondering about.
Pat
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:42
Tara,
Thank you for doing this!
OK, my presentation was on HTML5 video, so let's see if I can help.
What's the source video--where did you get it? How are you planning on
making it accessible? Where will the video be hosted? (Where the video
is hosted could be different from any interface where
Stanford University Libraries has an opening for a senior technical architect
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assets through an eco-system of
Let me correct myself. It is possible to embed a video on the code4lib
site. You can see an example here:
http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo
When editing the page the input format (in a dropdown section of the
page) needs to be changed to Full HTML.
The video is pulled from IA, which
What has been done regarding save the livestream from past events?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me correct myself. It is possible to embed a video on the code4lib
site. You can see an example here:
http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Tara Robertson
trobert...@langara.bc.ca wrote:
For the Access conference in 2011 we put them on the Internet
Archive:
+1 for Internet Archive
We have other years in there, too (but not all yet, unfortunately)
Some previous video has been put up on Internet Archive:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=code4lib
I don't know what's involved in uploading video to IA.
I like the option of hosting them on Internet Archive more so than
YouTube or another service. While IA has their own embed code, I'd be
OK, y'all convinced me; I want to commit something to my very first
big-girl open source project.
Now, which?
* I primarily speak Python (plus Django). I know a little jQuery. I could
dust off a tiny bit of PHP (though I'd rather not) and am not averse to an
excuse to learn (more than four hours
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Yeah, Joshua! That DEFINITELY qualifies as nerd poetry IMO. I hope your
darling can appreciate it!
kc
On 2/15/13 10:26 AM, Joshua Gomez wrote:
I'm sitting at the hotel waiting for my airport shuttle and I'm looking
over the list of great presentations that were given at the conference this
Andromeda,
One way to get started is to improve documentation. Try out a library
and send in a pull request for the README with what you've learned the
hard way. Read the code and add some documentation for classes or
methods. By reading code you'll learn lots. By submitting a
documentation pull
Hi Andromeda,
Check out openhatch.org -- as they put it: OpenHatch is an open source project
with the goals of lowering the barriers to entry into open source contribution
and increasing diversity. They match people up with projects, and help get
people of all skill sets/levels started
Andromeda,
There is a small and still unorganized group of folks who are interested
in setting up a sandbox instance (and later a real mirror) of the Open
Library which is written in python and in particular web.py, and a
platform called infogami.
http://infogami.org
In particular look at
relevant: http://everything2.com/title/Ode+To+Lynx
I like Karen's proposal of establishing an oral tradition. But I've also
been thinking about version controlled poetry in github or on a wiki, and
hyperlinked/linked data poetry. For that matter, does IRC poetry count as
oral if the channel is
Thanks Francis and everyone else who made the conference available via
streaming video for those of us who could not attend. It was great!
Peter
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From: Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu
Sent: Feb 15, 2013 4:56 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Video
Tom, no reason why we can't also have written poetry -- and performances
for when we are together. Some slam poetry as well as much rap is not
recorded, and therefore has the same passing existence of an unlogged
IRC channel. I would be fun to have a wiki for more durable poetry
(github
Ditto. It was almost like being there. I even had a beer each night.
--Dave
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California State University
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
I know some people know about this already, but for the past few years I've
been using Git to version my songs [1], then publishing them using Github Pages
[2]. It's actually worked out really well for my limited and specific purposes.
Pull requests accepted!
Hillel
[1]
Nice start on a list. I added the directory links to the wiki page for new
coders. I bet there are more that could be added.
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/One_recommended_tool/resource_for_n00bs#Meetups_and_User_Groups
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Joe Hourcle
+1 for the Internet Archive for the video.
Re. the presentation slides: depends on the presenters. Most of the times,
they uploaded their slides on places like slideshare, their own
website/blog, etc. We just link it to them.
ranti.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Jason Ronallo
First, to the organizations doing this, thank you so much for sharing. I'm
sure I'm not the only person to notice the growth in code sharing,
especially through Github.
As we're associated with libraries, I thought it might be good to have a
list, no matter how incomplete, of libraries sharing
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