Chris Cannam on The Carpentries

Feedback and wrap-up from York

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The SoundSoftware project arranged a Software Carpentry bootcamp for the week preceding DAFx'2012, the conference on Digital Audio Effects, at the University of York.

This bootcamp featured two days of non-subject-specific Software Carpentry material, presented by Greg, and an additional day of material specific to audio and music researchers, presented by Adam and Becky of Codasign. Many thanks to Greg, Adam, and Becky for their hard work.

Feedback from Newcastle upon Tyne

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

This week's Newcastle bootcamp, organised by the Digital Institute at Newcastle University with the Software Sustainability Institute and SoundSoftware, was the first Software Carpentry bootcamp run entirely locally in the UK. For the organisers it was a slightly nervous experience, hoping we could get the material to hold together in presentation without Greg's experience at hand.

Feedback from the learners was generally good on the material, the venue and the structure. The most common complaint was that it was hard to follow along at times, and I think there are several areas where we'll be able to improve the "flow" for future events.

UCL Bootcamp: Version Control Wrap-Up

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

For the bootcamp at UCL, we tried using Mercurial (with EasyMercurial) instead of Subversion in the version control segment.

You can see the plan for the segment on this EasyMercurial project page. Briefly, we opened with a few plain slides about the purpose of version control, followed by a hands-on example in three parts (working by yourself, working by yourself with an online remote repository, and working with others). We started at the beginning and got as far as "hg bisect", but did not cover branching.