Teaching at Monsanto

Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

As we discussed in April, the Steering Committee decided to run a small number of workshops for companies this year in order to see how our material would work for them, and whether they'd be willing to pay a higher administration fee that we could then use to underwrite workshops for people who might not otherwise be able to host one. The first of these workshops was held at Monsanto, and seems to have gone well: experience reports from two of the instructors are included below, and we hope to repeat the experiment for other companies in the coming months. (If you know a firm that would like our help, please do introduce us.)

Fixing 14 Repositories

Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We cloned our workshop repository at the beginning of the workshop at Spelman to give everyone an identical directory tree and contents to explore, and to distribute the sample data files. On the first day of our workshop, about a third of the learners (all running Windows) could not clone the workshop repository: git clone was failing for them with the error:

Will Trimble on The Carpentries

Teaching at Monsanto

Fixing 14 Repositories