[Discuss] RSE survey - please share

Posting this for US RSEs on behalf of the UK Software Sustainability Institute Are you a Research Software Engineer in the United States? Do you work professionally in software in a research environment, at least partly writing code for other people? Your job title might be research programmer,

Re: [Discuss] Git and Github lesson (follow-up)

Hi All, For a bit more context, we decided to strip the Dracula backdrop out of the git lesson completely to give our workshop participants another opportunity to write little scripts. The example we settled on was unit conversions (dollars-to-cents, minutes-to-hours, etc.). We also wanted to

Re: [Discuss] Typeface that helps dyslexics read

Luckily there is a similar open source version: https://opendyslexic.org On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 at 4:41 am, Cameron Macdonell < cameron.macdon...@macewan.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I recall a discussion a little while ago about Comic Sans being easier to > read for people with dyslexia. I came

Re: [Discuss] Git and Github lesson (follow-up)

In discussing alternative git lessons in the past, I and others have promoted the Guacamole approach. Github user @rrlove have edited the canonical lesson to use the guac example [1] (repo [2]). You can read about their experience with the lesson, as well [3]. So that's another alternative git

[Discuss] Typeface that helps dyslexics read

Hello, I recall a discussion a little while ago about Comic Sans being easier to read for people with dyslexia. I came across this article on the BBC about a new font that has been shown to have improved readability.

Re: [Discuss] Familiar Contexts and the Difficulty of Programming Problems

Regardless of any comments I might make on the paper, I wholeheartedly agree with the summary: For example, the results of our self-reflective questions suggest that > students appreciate examples, and we have found some evidence that > straightforward examples may benefit students more than a

Re: [Discuss] Familiar Contexts and the Difficulty of Programming Problems

2017-12-05 18:19 GMT+01:00 Greg Wilson : > A result that may be of use in designing Carpentry lessons (from > https://doi.org/10.1145/3141880.3141898): > > Intuition suggests that problems from a familiar context should be easier >> to solve than the same problems

Re: [Discuss] Familiar Contexts and the Difficulty of Programming Problems

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[Discuss] Familiar Contexts and the Difficulty of Programming Problems

A result that may be of use in designing Carpentry lessons (from https://doi.org/10.1145/3141880.3141898): Intuition suggests that problems from a familiar context should be easier to solve than the same problems described using an unfamiliar domain. However, prior work on contextualized

[Discuss] Git and Github lesson (follow-up)

Dear all, Back in July 2017 I started a conversation on the discuss list about alternative Git/Github lessons that exist in the Carpentry community [1]. So many of you responded with suggestions about how you have dropped the Dracula example or augmented it with episodes on things like Git GUI or