[Discuss] any experienGitUp

2015-06-15 Thread Pauline Barmby
Hi all -- Does anyone have experience using GitUp (http://gitup.co/ ) ? As it's Mac-only, it's unlikely to be useful for Software Carpentry teaching, but might be helpful elsewhere.. Thanks, Pauline Dr. Pauline Barmby, Associate Professor Department of Physics Astronomy, Western University

Re: [Discuss] any experienGitUp

2015-06-15 Thread Fonnesbeck, Christopher J
I've been using it pretty regularly for the pat couple of weeks. I find it very useful for getting a sense of where I am in a repository, particularly one with several collaborative branches. It also has nice creature comforts like simple keyboard shortcuts for mundane tasks such as editing

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

2015-06-15 Thread Matthias Bussonnier
For what its worth, a SWC bootcamp was tough at UC Berkeley 2 weeks ago. And was 100% python 3 (well the Python part, not the git and command line part of course). We didn’t had any issues. A couple of questions about python2, but nothing serious. As usual a couple of people came with no

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

2015-06-15 Thread Greg Wilson
Python 3 it is. What other changes would people like to our lessons in the next couple of months? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org

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

2015-06-15 Thread Maxime Boissonneault
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

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

2015-06-15 Thread Steven Haddock
This was a timely post by Maxime, because I was just thinking of surveying instructors about what they use for their own work and what were the thoughts about porting SWC lessons to Python 3. I can’t remember if there was a recent thread on this… Worth creating an issue (or something even more

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

2015-06-15 Thread Titus Brown
My grad student has dragged our project into 2011, kicking and screaming (Khmer is now Py3 compliant). I'll report back in a few months :) -- Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu On Jun 15, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Steven Haddock hadd...@mbari.org wrote: This was a timely post by Maxime, because I was

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

2015-06-15 Thread Juan Nunez-Iglesias
Steve, the switch to Python 3 is happening for v5.4: https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-inflammation/issues/127 We're using Python 3 for our book also and devoting a few paragraphs to why and to how to make it run in Python 2.7 if absolutely necessary. So you are not alone in your

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

2015-06-15 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:17:42 -, Juan Nunez-Iglesias jni.s...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, the switch to Python 3 is happening for v5.4: https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-inflammation/issues/127 We're using Python 3 for our book also and devoting a few paragraphs to why and to how