I like the idea of flipping the Carpentry classroom as well, but I think
the first day or two should still use our regular approach: for many
learners, the biggest benefit of a workshop is the way it helps them get
over the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) they feel whenever they try
to get
Hello,
I am working on a SWC workshop based on R that's coming up, and I had a
thought. For the R based workshops, we use RStudio, which also has a Git
interface, and in fact you can initialize and set up git for a project
through the RStudio Project interface. In fact this is a common
Some kind of hybrid model does seem like it would be good, if it can be
made viable.
My experience with videos on computing and statistical topics is that some
sort of guide needs to be provided to the viewer prior to watching to keep
attention focused and to force at least some active processing
Nice!! I'm sure I wasn't the only one with this thought :)
stijn van hoey wrote:
Dear Abhijit,
As in our institute the usage of git/github from within Rstudio was a
specific request from the researchers, we do have a hands-on workshop
for git in Rstudio, see
Hi,
I second this. It can be challenging enough getting over the message that Git
is not GitHub or that Jupyter is not Python, for example. I want attendees to
leave with an awareness of underlying concepts and to use them in the tools
that they will be required to use on their future
Good conversation!
The way I've always taught it as part of an R-shell-git-R sequence is to
do a full half-day with git from the command line, then in the second R
segment (end of second day), move over to using git in RStudio.
That way it reinforces the concepts learned on the command line
Hi everyone
I know a lot of people who are planning to come to CarpetryCon will be on a
pretty tight budget. The good news is UCD are now offering on-campus
accommodation at a much cheaper rate than a hotel and there will be no
travel costs to factor in either since you'll be on the spot. Rooms
Hi Abhijit,
The Software Carpentry "bylaws" only mentioned that you must teach a version
control system. It could be Git, Mercurial, SVN or another one.
In terms of learners experience during the lesson, I was helping on a web
development workshop and I noticed that different users had
Hi Abhijit,
I was recently at the SIGCSE conference in Baltimore. There was a github panel
of faculty using github in teaching. One of the presenters was a statistical
sciences prof from Duke, Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. She said the RStudio
interface was ideal for her mostly non-programming
I'm a big fan of the work Mine has done through RStudio, DataCamp, and Duke
for better workflows in the R ecosystem.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 9:38 AM Cameron Macdonell <
cameron.macdon...@macewan.ca> wrote:
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> I was recently at the SIGCSE conference in Baltimore. There was a
Thanks for the feedback!
One of the reasons RStudio is attractive is that the workshop becomes
immersive and unified in one IDE.
The git interface is pretty good, and merge conflicts are dealt with much
as a standard text editor would, so standard but nothing as nice as Atom.
For beginners, and
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