https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/tag/utah-state-university/Recent content in Utah State University on The CarpentriesHugoen-usWed, 20 Nov 2024 10:51:28 -0500https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2012/04/utah-state-university-wrap-up/Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2012/04/utah-state-university-wrap-up/<p><b>This post originally appeared on the <a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.</a></b></p> <p>Our bootcamp at Utah State University finished earlier today&mdash;many thanks once again to Ethan White and his friends for hosting us. Here's what the students thought:</p> <table> <tr> <td> <strong>Good</strong> </td> <td> <strong>Bad</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li>keeping history</li> <li>break work into pieces</li> <li>integrating different things</li> <li>good for different levels of knowledge</li> <li>liked the pace</li> <li>good tech support from helpers</li> <li>download data from the web</li> <li>liked the escalation</li> <li>using up-to-date languages</li> <li>emphasis on commonality of patterns</li> <li>liked flexibility</li> <li>talked about formatting/style</li> <li>everything consistent</li> <li>Greg's stories</li> <li>hearing from multiple people</li> <li>organized around simple, general structural things</li> <li>liked structure around data processing</li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li>machine/software setup</li> <li>hard to keep up with Greg's typing</li> <li>wind tunnel</li> <li>no beer</li> <li>assumed knowledge we didn't have</li> <li>less lecture, more time on examples/practicals</li> <li>rushed</li> <li>wide range of applicability</li> <li>wanted more complicated examples</li> <li>some things glossed over</li> <li>don't understand strengths/weaknesses of languages</li> <li>would have liked time to make better examples</li> <li>some places were "show" not "do"</li> <li>didn't cover testing</li> <li>Greg's stories</li> <li>couldn't tell if people were with us or not</li> <li>hard to keep track of what tool we were in</li> <li>coordination across people</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <p>Next stop: London!</p>