Terri Yu on The Carpentries

Running a Code Retreat

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

I recently attended a scholarship retreat run by Google with about 40 other students. We spent one day doing a "code retreat" and I wanted to share my experience and what I learned about programming.

After WISE

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Our first bootcamp for women in science and engineering is just wrapping up in Boston. It's gone very well—we'll be posting a summary soon, but in the meanwhile, here are a few things attendees can do as follow-up:

UMass Amherst Bootcamp: Perspective from a Helper

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Background

A few weeks ago, I helped out with the Software Carpentry bootcamp at UMass Amherst. It was my first time being a helper. Previously, my exposure to Software Carpentry was the MOOC style online Spring 2011 class, which I took during physics graduate school. I was among the 5-10% of students to finish the course. The low completion rate was one of the reasons Software Carpentry switched to doing live, on-site bootcamps.

A couple years later, I got in touch with Greg Wilson and he mentioned that there was a bootcamp coming up in my area. He invited me to join as a helper, I agreed, and I suddenly found myself on several mailing lists. I had no idea what to expect, but the bootcamp turned out to be quite fun and I met many interesting people—including a core Python developer.

Post bootcamp, I had many thoughts about the logistics and teaching. The staff invited me to write these up in a blog post.