I agree 100% that motivation is a big problem with the Planets lesson. In the
past, I've "solved" this by teaching git *after* Python/R and then using real
code for git. But that has its own problems. The motivation is clearer, but the
mental burden of using code, which they've only just been
Hi,
Bruno Grande just published a blog post on this approach to teaching git by
having learners set up their online presence using GitHub Pages, and contrasts
it to the current SWC git-novice ‘Planets’ lesson. I do not agree with all he
is saying about effectively teaching git, but he does
Dear All,
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:00:29AM +0200, Lex Nederbragt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bruno Grande just published a blog post on this approach to teaching
> git by having learners set up their online presence using GitHub Pages,
> and contrasts it to the current SWC git-novice ???Planets???
This is simply awesome (both the stats and the results of them)! I was
convinced we were losing a lot more people than that!
karin
On 20/05/16 17:51, Greg Wilson wrote:
Following up on Wednesday's post about instructor training stats [1],
Erin Becker (Data Carpentry's new Associate Director)
I would also be -1 to building a blog at a Software Carpentry workshop.
There's too much extraneous cognitive load involved.
I do however, agree that the planets lesson has little relevance to
learners.
I would be in favor of teaching Git *after* a programming session
(Python/R),
and having
I have been using GitHub as the starting point for teaching Git in the last
three Software Carpentry classes that I lead. Still working this out but in a
nut shell we start on GitHub, set up an account, do the “Hello World” lesson
provided by GitHub, move to the desktop and use the GitHub
I try to tie together Bash, Python/R and Git by at the very beginning of the
very first day typing:
git clone https://github.com/jduckles/
This brings down all of the data that will be used for Bash/Python/R lessons. I
explain this as a bit like pulling down a zip file and exploding it into a
Following up on Wednesday's post about instructor training stats [1],
Erin Becker (Data Carpentry's new Associate Director) has posted an
analysis at [2]. I was very surprised to discover that less than 20% of
people trained over a year ago haven't taught yet - I believed the
number to be
