The Good and the Bad of It

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We've come to the end of a hot, slightly sweaty, two days of learning in UCL and have just done a straw poll of participants of the good and bad points of this bootcamp. Something that was trialled at UCL was asking participants to sign up in small (3-4 people) teams drawn from their local research group. In total, we had a little over 40 learners and 10 helpers. We also taught the version control portion using EasyMercurial (thanks to Chris Cannam from SoundSoftware).

Better Across the Pond?

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

I'm sitting in a packed room helping out at the UCL bootcamp, the first of a series to be run in the United Kingdom (Newcastle is next, and there are plans to run additional workshops in Oxford, RAL, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol). I'm thinking about two things: why would you design a 60 seater lecture theatre with only one window for ventilation and why is Software Carpentry so popular in the UK?

Neil Chue Hong on The Carpentries

The Good and the Bad of It

Better Across the Pond?