Re: [Discuss] [ti...@idyll.org: There was no vast migration of Eurasians into Africa - The Unz Review]

Is this story on the list? Happened to land (again) in my Twitter feed... https://www.thewinnower.com/papers/1052-avoid-having-to-retract-your-genomics-analysis Lex On 26 Jan 2016, at 17:57, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) wrote: >> I'll add that besides a workflow system which would have helped (but

Re: [Discuss] feedback sought on intro/overview for modern scientific authoring

Hi, I learned a lot on printing history, that was fun! The text mentions the Jupyter notebook almost in passing, but isn’t this type of document (worth) its own category? Combining prose, code and analytical results as a recent invention for publishing scientific results? RMarkdown/knitr would

Re: [Discuss] feedback sought on intro/overview for modern scientific authoring

e being a (nearly) insurmountable obstacle*. > > --titus > > * yes, I know you can work offline with Latex files. But you can't do it > with overleaf, so people would have to learn something new. > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Lex Nederbragt wrote: >

[Discuss] RajLab: From reproducibility to over-reproducibility

Hi, This blog post: http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.no/2016/02/from-reproducibility-to-over.html seems like a perfect example of how many people will think. And I can’t really come up with some compelling evidence to convince this person he is (completely) wrong. On the plus side, they are ver

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

Hi all and thanks for the many responses. My feeling reading this post was about tools (partly echoing Greg): 'we' know 'all of us' should use the appropriate tool, e.g. version control (is that what you call the moral high-ground?). But for the novice, these tools/methods have steep learning

Re: [Discuss] IASSIST 2016 & Norway visit

Hi Elizabeth, I’d be happy to meet you, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Karin Lagesen wants to join in as well. I’ll take the discussion off-list and send both you and Karin a first email right away. Lex > On 08 Mar 2016, at 19:06, E.W. wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'll be attending IASSIS

Re: [Discuss] Phrases to avoid when teaching

Perhaps this helps? Look for "Things You Shouldn't Do in a Workshop" on http://swcarpentry.github.io/instructor-training/09-motivation.html Lex > On 24 Mar 2016, at 22:02, Steven Haddock wrote: > > TL;dr Can someone point me to the post about teaching guidelines? > > A little while ago Gre

Re: [Discuss] Phrases to avoid when teaching

> On 25 Mar 2016, at 00:04, alexsa...@gmail.com wrote: > > The best programming language is the one that allows you to do what you want > in the timeline you have to with the efficiency you need while keeping it > simple enough for you and for the ones that will come to read the code. > Brilli

Re: [Discuss] Any tips for learning R and Python?

> P.S. The suggestion on attending a R and/or Python software carpentry is > quite a valid one, but it difficult for me to travel to where these workshops > are normally run and hence why I would like to provide some local courses > myself. Or, if you can find the funding (travel and lodging),

[Discuss] HPCCarpentry (was "Tutorials at SC'16")

Hi, It would be great if a set of common HPC Carpentry lessons would now finally materialise. I have lot’s of people I could tech it to :-) As to the developments of these materials, i’d like to point to the process by which Greg designed a one-day new novice python lesson. See https://github.

Re: [Discuss] Outreach misconception about Data and Software Carpentry as piece of software instead of skills

Hi, Should http://software-carpentry.org/ have a bit of text above the pictures for people visiting the page for the very first time? http://www.datacarpentry.org/ has this. Lex > On 14 Apr 2016, at 03:56, Ivan Gonzalez

Re: [Discuss] Advanced NumPy lesson

Hi, Great! A month ago, Jonah Duckles described a draft model for 'new lesson incubation’. Could you consider submitting this lesson there? And then expect an invitation to teach it at a

[Discuss] A video introduction to instructing by means of live coding

Hi, Greg’s recent video 'An example of bad teaching’ was part of a bigger plan we made to use video demonstrations for the instructor training workshops. My part in this was to make a demonstration focussing on good and bad practices for the live-coding aspect. Thus, this week, I made two 2-3

Re: [Discuss] A video introduction to instructing by means of live coding

seminar > participants, but still good to specify. > > Stian > >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Lex Nederbragt >> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Greg’s recent video 'An example of bad teaching’ was part of a bigger plan >> we made to use video demons

Re: [Discuss] A video introduction to instructing by means of live coding

>> screen is a big plus which will allow you doing it more than not. And >> in the typical classroom you (at least we) just have a table, not a >> stand. I guess it's time for some shopping for our next workshop :-) >> >> >> Inigo >> >&g

[Discuss] Teaching Git Using GitHub Pages

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 have

[Discuss] Finally we know why girls don't code

Enjoy: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/girls-explain-how-boobs-menstruation-and-more-keep-them-coding-satirical-campaign-171503 Lex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/dis

Re: [Discuss] Videos for instructor training

Hi Erin, First, welcome as Associate Director of Data Carpentry! I think it is a good plan to make a page collecting these kinds of videos (I have an idea for another one, but no time to put it together yet). Would it be possible to make a channel or collection on youtube, with a webpage linkin

Re: [Discuss] teaching intro programming to undergrads

Hi, I am very grateful for this paper and you sharing your experiences, as I am in charge of developing a similar course for first-semester biology undergraduates. I have so far only watched the slides and skimmed the paper, but it looks to be very helpful! Best, Lex Nederbragt > On

Re: [Discuss] Teaching Unix shell with a synced file window - feedback

Hi, This is great! Yesterday when teaching git I ran ‘cd Desktop; mkdir planets’ while unintentionally having to top right corner of the desktop visible. This meant the new ‘planets’ folder appeared out of nothing - great teaching moment! So I totally see the point of this. Even without such a

[Discuss] Software Carpentry Workshop attendee Satisfaction Survey

Hi, It would be much appreciated if you would fill out this survey meant to measure the efficacy of Software Carpentry workshops. Best, Lex Calling all Software Carpentry workshop attendees! I’d like 10 minutes of your time to complete a survey

Re: [Discuss] Software Carpentry Workshop attendee Satisfaction Survey

at 15:16, Lex Nederbragt wrote: > > > Hi, > > It would be much appreciated if you would fill out this survey meant to > measure the efficacy of Software Carpentry workshops. > > Best, > > Lex > > > Calling all Software Carpentry workshop att

Re: [Discuss] Preferred communication tool used during teaching

Hi, Etherpad combines a live-edited text document with a chat function. Slack lacks the former. For some workshops, the live-note taking capability of the etherpad works very well. In some workshops, hardly any learner takes notes. Most of the times, instructors use the etherpad to share links

[Discuss] Fw: CFP DTW2016 workshop - 3rd RDA Workshop on Curricula and Teaching Methods in Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Data Science

Hi, This workshop was brought to my attention by a colleague. The deadline seems to have passed but they write being willing to extend it. I thought this was perhaps something for Software/Data Carpentry to submit a contribution to? It seems to be they want papers, though, not just presentation

Re: [Discuss] Live-coding in a classroom built for group-wise learning?

you'll notice the document camera (Samsung) > in these photos - this allows you to draw on a piece of paper and have that > projected where you like. > > Hope this is helpful - I'd be happy to discuss more off-list. > > Paul > > On 10/03/2016 06:21 AM, Lex Ne

[Discuss] Installation instructions for GNU make?

? Thanks in advance, Lex Nederbragt -- Lex Nederbragt Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Dept. of Biosciences, University of Oslo P.O. Box 1066 Blindern 0316 Oslo, Norway Ph. +47 22844132 +47 48028722 Fax. +47 22854001 Email lex.nederbr...@ibv.uio.no http

Re: [Discuss] Installation instructions for GNU make?

Thanks, Michael! Lex > On 11 Oct 2016, at 10:29, Michael J Jackson wrote: > > Hi Lex, > > Quoting Lex Nederbragt on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 > 09:38:04 +0200: > >> We will be teaching the SWC ‘make’ lesson for the first time in a couple of >> weeks. Do we

Re: [Discuss] alternative episode order for new Python lesson

Hi, I have yet to make up my mind whether I prefer/believe more in the ’show some cool, applicable, but perhaps confusing thing as early as possible to hook in learners’ versus ‘carefully introduce programming concepts as usual and work towards the cool, applicable thing’. But, has anyone tried

Re: [Discuss] alternative episode order for new Python lesson

> will kill this -- and it's better to do less more thoroughly. > Presenting the final project as part of the advert for the workshop, > possibly along with the steps from start to finish, may also be an > effective tool to enable potential participants to self-place. I've >

Re: [Discuss] experience / alternatives to using swc lesson template for non-SWC teaching and training?

Hi, I did this before the recent template visual overhaul, see https://uio-cees.github.io/hpc-lessons/ . A few challenges are swapping out the logo’s and what to do with the license (LICENSE file) - if you change it the command to check the site will pr

[Discuss] An Etherpad of Software and Data Carpentry Etherpads

Hi, Inspired by the impossibility of finding the ‘conferences’ etherpad, I made a pad-of-pads at http://pad.software-carpentry.org/pad-of-pads. I have added two Etherpads so far. Let me know whether you think this is a good idea or not, and if you do, add you favourite Etherpad (provided it is

[Discuss] gapminderDataFiveYear

Hi, The gapminderDataFiveYear data that I have on my harddisk, and the ones from the python and R lessons using the gap minder data, runs from 1952 to 2007. I thought it would be nice to a

Re: [Discuss] gapminderDataFiveYear

tidy the data from the spreadsheets made >> available by the gapminder website. It might be worth putting a pull >> request together to update the data there, and then it will be easy to >> update the data in our lessons. >> >> Cheers, >> -- Franç

Re: [Discuss] gapminderDataFiveYear

ntradicts adjacent text. It's very hard to catch. >>>> >>>> I've always tried to be clear that gapminder is a data set for teaching >>>> and exampling data analysis. There are much better sources of the >>>> socioeconomic data and, as notic

[Discuss] Hans Rosling, of 'gapminder' fame, has died

s Rosling’s legacy by reusing his material while improving the life of researchers. Regards, Lex Nederbragt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Project management tools for research

Hi David, Man, I wish I could go to your (un)conference! Any chance you can stream some of it? The ‘Review platform’ threw me off at first as I thought you meant ‘peer review’ instead of ‘code review’ :-) Are things like impactstory and publons out of scope? All the best with the organisation

[Discuss] Workshop on (!) Software Carpentry at the Nordic e-Infrastructure Conference

, make sure to add your name to the SWC Events Meetup etherpad <http://pad.software-carpentry.org/swc-events-meetup>. Regards, Lex Nederbragt -- Lex Nederbragt Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Dept. of Biosciences, University of Oslo P.O. Box 1066 Blindern 0

[Discuss] Subtitles (closed captioning) for live-coding demo videos

Hi all, For Software and Data Carpentry instructor training, we use two videos (starring yours truly) to demonstrate do’s and dont’s for live-coding: https://youtu.be/bXxBeNkKmJE and https://youtu.be/SkPmwe_WjeY. We are looking for a volunteer to add subtitles/Cl

Re: [Discuss] Subtitles (closed captioning) for live-coding demo videos

ideo length to edit the Youtube >>> automatic subtitling. The quality of the original will >>> depend on how well the algorithm interprets the >>> speaker, and the relative presence of homophones etc. >>> in the spoken text. So I allow about 1 hour to do the >

Re: [Discuss] Subtitles (closed captioning) for live-coding demo videos

Hi, Thanks to Jeremy Gray (who just beat Iñigo Aldazabal to it), both videos have now closed captions (in English). Much appreciated! Best, Lex > On 04 Apr 2017, at 20:44, Lex Nederbragt wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the replies. We now have > <https://g

Re: [Discuss] your ideal training space is...?

* High lectern, for when the instructor wants to stand while live-coding. Not too wide so the instructor does not ‘disappear’ behind it * bottom of the projector screen high enough that learners in the back don’t have the heads of learners in from in the way, but top not so high that pointing at

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson alternative

Hi, Adding a thought: if the ‘Dracula/Wolfman’ story in the git lesson is to be changed to some actual programming, we run into the ‘in what language’ issue: we sometimes teach workshops where we teach unix + git + R instead of unix + git + python. A python-based git lesson would be useless for

Re: [Discuss] Know of anything like "Nature, In Code"

Hi Pat, We’re doing exactly this at the moment: teaching programming and simple mathematical modelling using (mostly) exclusively biological problems, to first-year (first semester) biology students. I’ve written a blog post

[Discuss] International Digital Curation Conference 2018 - Call for Papers

Hi, This may be a good place to promote the Software/Data Carpentry efforts towards 'Skills and competence building’. I’d love to go but am uncertain whether I can commit to it... Best, Lex -Original Message- From: Digital Curation Centre [mailto:campa...@dcc.ac.uk] Sent: Fr

[Discuss] Blog posts on diagnostic questions

Hi, Craig Barton, creator of diagnosticquestions.com , has been blogging recently about how to make good diagnostic questions, i.e. multiple choice question used for formative assessment. His latest post

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

Hi, I have developed and taught a lesson called "Writing and publishing on the web together using Github” that skips git altogether, uses the guacamole recipe and github, includes collaboration through direct committing and through pull requests (with and without the need to fork, and with reso

[Discuss] Call for new workshop locations in the Nordic countries

Software Carpentry will take care of workshop registration and instructor recruitment. Interested in hosting a workshop? Please fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/h2RLzV5a4vgRw6AM2 <https://goo.gl/forms/h2RLzV5a4vgRw6AM2>. Questions? Contact me at lex.nederbr...@ibv.uio.no Re

[Discuss] Code Phonology - on reading code aloud

Hi, Felienne Hermans has a really interesting blog post and accompanying paper on Code Phonology, i.e. on reading code aloud: http://www.felienne.com/archives/5947 . This is relevant for teaching through ‘live follow-along coding’: are we aware what vocab

Re: [Discuss] editing workshop schedule

Would someone care to add this as a set of instructions somewhere? Lex > On 31 Mar 2018, at 20:36, Karin Lagesen wrote: > > Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who pointed me in the right direction! > > Karin > > > On 28.03.2018 21:33, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Ma

Re: [Discuss] Thoughts on a workshop: Pedagogies for Teaching Programming

Hi, Peer instruction would work in this setting for (2) and (3). you could use a non-language-specific programming multiple-choice question. I usually - show the question and answers - let them think for themselves - discuss with neighbour, see whether you agree and why (not) - each person votes

Re: [Discuss] GitHub Issue template improvements

Very good idea! Lex > On 4 May 2018, at 07:51, Rayna Harris wrote: > > Ooh! I like this. I would love, love to have two separate templates: one for > people creating an issue/PR for checkout and one for experienced users that > suggests things like linking to a relevant issue or PR >

Re: [Discuss] Looking for volunteers who have attended Software Carpentry

pentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Lex Nederbragt Norwegian High-Throughput Sequencing Centre (NSC) Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Dept. of Biosciences, University of Oslo P.O. Box 1066 Blindern 0316 Oslo, Norway Ph. +47 22844132 +47 48028722

[Discuss] How to enable people to use our novice unix material on their own?

don't know how to 'git clone' the repo). Is it an idea to provide such instructions for people wanting to use the material on their own, or practice after a bootcamp? Best, Lex -- Lex Nederbragt Norwegian High-Throughput Sequencing Centre (NSC) Centre for Ecological and Evolutio

Re: [Discuss] Your ideas on instructor life

..@software-carpentry.org> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org<mailto:Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.soft

[Discuss] Python for biologists: Five things I hate about teaching Python

Hi, I just found this post that some people may appreciate: http://pythonforbiologists.com/index.php/five-things-i-hate-about-teaching-python/ Lex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Rodeo IDE is like Rstudio

Hi, I observed (helped out at) a SWC workshop once where RStudio was used for teaching. The big advantage was that the students could see the previous commands in the top left part (frame). This helped a lot in allowing students to catch up. The IPython notebook allows this to a certain extent,

Re: [Discuss] Self-learning using the SWC material

Nice! But, there remains one challenge: when someone completely new to the unix shell wants to work through the material at http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/, they should ‘cd’ into the correct folder before they run the first ‘ls’ command. This is not covered in your post, and is some

Re: [Discuss] a new lesson on Make

This is great! I had a quick look through it and I like it. I'll try to find an occasion to teach it soon (after my summer break). Well done authors! Lex > On 18 Jun 2015, at 20:01, Greg Wilson wrote: > > We now have a lesson on using Make that's actually human-readable (unlike the > one

[Discuss] Asking multiple choice questions during a workshop

Hi, As I wrote elsewhere (thanks to Greg for mentioning this post on the SWC blog), for collecting answers to the multiple choice questions I ask during the workshops I teach, I use a very s

Re: [Discuss] Asking multiple choice questions during a workshop

16:40, Maxime Boissonneault > wrote: > > Hi Lex, > Have you given Socrative.com a shot ? > > Maxime Boissonneault > > Le 2015-09-04 10:37, Lex Nederbragt a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> As I wrote elsewhere >> <https://flxlexblog.wordpress.com/20

Re: [Discuss] Asking multiple choice questions during a workshop

#x27;s interesting you can turn the responses into one: http://help.socrative.com/article/run-short-answer-quick-questions/ Thanks! Lex > > > Le 2015-09-04 10:45, Lex Nederbragt a écrit : >> I have seen it in action, but it requires me to enter the questions I want >> to

Re: [Discuss] Asking multiple choice questions during a workshop

quick question", >> which you enter on the fly. >> >> >> Le 2015-09-04 10:45, Lex Nederbragt a écrit : >>> I have seen it in action, but it requires me to enter the questions I want >>> to ask beforehand - or ask blank questions as I already do

Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 21:49, Sam Penrose wrote: > > I wonder if it is helpful in effect to reverse the polarity of the > identification, to say: > > Programmers spend their time getting complex systems to play nicely, > which is a process of repeatedly getting stuck, then making some > progress,

[Discuss] Instructor & Helper Retreat "Interactive learning" session: preparations

e a linux/unix server, or use an amazon EC2 instance. I will live-code the latter solution, so no worries, it will all be become clear tomorrow at 3 PM UTC! Looking forward, Lex Nederbragt -- Lex Nederbragt Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Dept. of Biosciences, Unive

[Discuss] Code review for MSc students

ering whether others have tried such an approach, or whether it sounds hopelessly ambitious... Thanks in advance, Lex Nederbragt -- Lex Nederbragt Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Dept. of Biosciences, University of Oslo P.O. Box 1066 Blindern 0316 Oslo, Norway

Re: [Discuss] Code review for MSc students

Hi all, Many thanks for the very useful responses. We are going o use these to help decide on a strategy for our students. Greg, I’ll try to make this thread into a blog post. Lex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] for loop metaphor

Late to the party, but here is what I did once (as mentioned here ): Explaining shell variables and loops: Take an empty cup, this is going to be your variable (a 'container'). Write something o

[Discuss] Command-line bootcamp adventure in your browser

Interesting approach to (self) learning unix shell: https://github.com/Blahah/command_line_bootcamp (Rik Smith-Unna is a Mozilla Science Fellow). Could this be used to make version based on the SWCarpentry material, with pre-loaded data, for se