Re: [Discuss] Planning new installer for Windows (Also: why Anaconda?)

ts.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- ----- Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Team lead - Research Support

[Discuss] MobaXTerm

beginners... -- ----- Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Team lead - Research Support National Team, Compute Canada Instructeur Software Carpentry

[Discuss] Excel errors....

Hi everyone, Some interesting content to use about how to not do science correctly with a computer https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors/ Maxime Boissonneault ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] too much, but what to cut?

-gapminder/reference/ -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Team lead - Research Support National Team, Compute Canada Instructeur Software

Re: [Discuss] Numpy as the first section in the Python lessons?

of numbers. Starting with abstract concepts like variable naming, loops, conditionals, etc, is bound to bore students, which is never a good thing at the very beginning of a class. Cheers, and have a good first time! -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul

Re: [Discuss] using dotfiles as an introduction to git?

But for novice students I would stay with a .txt file because it will save time to explain dotfiles concepts and avoid students problems with .bashrc. I agree. The rule of thumb should be: don't change your dotfiles unless you know what you are doing. And novices definitely don't know what

[Discuss] Reading on open science

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2016/04/biologists-start-sharing-unpublished-work-oh-the-horror/ Interesting read. Maxime Boissonneault ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Experiences that change the way we program

I learned to code as a teen, initially with Pascal, but very soon after with Java. Since I had learned to code not long before, I can't say it changed the way I coded, but I can definitely say that having learned to code in an object oriented way (because of Java) from the get go has changed the

Re: [Discuss] RajLab: From reproducibility to over-reproducibility

o convince someone like that? Thanks, Greg [1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/LD50 -- ----- Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Team lead - Resear

Re: [Discuss] Best current python testing library

-- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Team lead - Research Support National Team, Compute Canada Instructeur Software Carpentry Ph. D. en physique

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Hi Greg, I only had time to skim through it. However, one thing I find is missing in the Data Management part is something like this : - If you have tens of thousands of files (or more), you are probably doing it wrong. Look for archiving those files in chunks, or combining them in some way.

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Le 2015-11-17 11:15, Martin Bähr a écrit : Excerpts from Maxime Boissonneault's message of 2015-11-17 14:29:28 +0100: On a cluster, having tens of thousands of files will be a killer, but even on a personnal computer, it will make your data management a nightmare. I have seen users who think

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Sorry. I created this issue : https://github.com/swcarpentry/good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing/issues/24 I only posted my original comment. Feel free to re-post your comments in the issue. Maxime Le 2015-11-17 13:21, Greg Wilson a écrit : Thanks for the feedback, everyone - can

[Discuss] Recording bash script to a github webpage, live

to use SSH keys. * The script uses a modified version of ansi2html.sh, which I got from here http://github.com/pixelb/scripts/commits/master/scripts/ansi2html.sh I hope this can be useful to someone else! -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec

Re: [Discuss] Paper certificates

in the {{variables}} and then launches Inkscape to turn it into a PDF. We'd be very grateful for a better solution. Thanks, Greg On 2015-08-14 2:28 PM, Maxime Boissonneault wrote: Hi, When planning trainings (SWC and others) in our organization, the question as arisen of if we should hand out paper

Re: [Discuss] Report: Software Carpentry 2015-10-27-28

ir website, and we were not aware of it (a student pointed it to us). We provide one installer that will install nano that I thought was mention at the workshop template. Cheers, Raniere -- ----- Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Univer

Re: [Discuss] Socrative quiz for Bash

Note : you can import the quiz once you have created a Teacher account (it's free), by going in "Manage quizzes", and then "Import Quiz". Maxime Le 2015-10-24 13:05, Maxime Boissonneault a écrit : Hi, I have created a Socrative quiz with the questions for the Bash lesson

Re: [Discuss] Workshop page : what am I missing ?

Hem... nevermind, it seems like it just needed some time. Le 2015-08-19 10:16, Maxime Boissonneault a écrit : Hi, I created a workshop page using the instructions here : https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template The git repository is here : https://github.com/calculquebec/2015-10-27

[Discuss] Workshop page : what am I missing ?

://calculquebec.github.io/2015-10-27-SWC-Universite-Laval What am I missing ? -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Instructeur Software Carpentry Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Ph. D. en physique

Re: [Discuss] Paper certificates

If what you want is to do a certificate like a diploma for a bunch of names you can use any program that offers mail-merge[1]. I know that MS publisher and probably MS office has it, but I haven't use them. Normally I use Scribus [2] when I need to create badges for conferences. You can

Re: [Discuss] Slides

*Bruno Grande* /President/ | MBB Graduate Caucus /PhD Candidate/ | Computational Biology /Morin Lab/ | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry /Simon Fraser University/ | Burnaby, British Columbia On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Maxime Boissonneault maxime.boissonnea

[Discuss] Slides

Hi, Does anyone know what tool was used to create those html slides ? http://swcarpentry.github.io/slideshows/lessons-learned/index.html#slide-0 Thanks, -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Instructeur Software

[Discuss] Some interresting reading

/ Thought I would share. Maxime Boissonneault -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Instructeur Software Carpentry Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec Ph. D. en physique

Re: [Discuss] Question about the Unix shell lesson

Maxime, Yes, some people teach with shells in the clouds, but I shy away from it - university WiFi is often not reliable. (Two out of 16 people at a workshop last week in Toronto were unable to get on the network...) Thanks, Greg On 2015-07-02 2:08 PM, Maxime Boissonneault wrote: Has anyone tried

[Discuss] Question about the Unix shell lesson

. How do you explain to attendees that if they do ls /, they will /not/ actually see what is given in the examples ? -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Ph. D. en physique

Re: [Discuss] Question about the Unix shell lesson

Has anyone tried a free SSH shell service for teaching, i.e. one listed here : http://shells.red-pill.eu/ Maxime Le 2015-07-02 15:00, Maxime Boissonneault a écrit : Hi, I'm currently going through the Unix shell lesson to see how SWC teaches it. I am wondering, the examples are made

[Discuss] Food for thought for the Python 2 vs 3 debate

Some interresting reading : http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/2015-survey-results/ Maxime -- - Maxime Boissonneault Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval Ph. D. en physique ___ Discuss mailing