Scripps Institute on The Carpentries

Titus Brown on the Scripps Institute Bootcamp

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Hot on the heels of Cait Pickens' posts about our workshop at the Scripps Institute comes this post-mortem from Titus Brown. Again, there's lots of good analysis, and many useful recommendations—particularly concerning installation and setup headaches (which continue to be our second-biggest problem).

Cait Pickens on the Scripps Institute Bootcamp

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Cait Pickens (a grad student from Michigan State University) has written a great series of posts about the bootcamp she helped teach at the Scripps Institute a couple of weeks ago:

She also has a post describing how they used HipChat in the classroom, which is almost what I think we need to do peer instruction online. There's lots of good stuff to think about here—recommended.

This Is What We Do

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Day 1 of the workshop at the Scripps Institute: a room full of biologists learning how to do better science faster by building things the right way.