Thoughts on an Advanced Bootcamp at Boulder

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Alex Viana and myself recently wrapped up a bootcamp at the National Center for Atmosphere Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. It was a lesson in the advantages of being light on your feet when it comes to teaching for Software Carpentry. Our normal audience tends to be scientists with varying degrees of familiarity with the tools that we teach. This time we taught about 20 people all of whom were experience software engineers, some of whom had probably been programming longer than Alex or I had been alive. We had planned on starting the morning with some shell and then moving into Git. A quick survey of the room found that everyone was well versed in the shell so we abandoned that lesson all together and went straight to teaching Git.

National Center for Atmospheric Research on The Carpentries

Thoughts on an Advanced Bootcamp at Boulder