Teaching materials for scientists

[John Wong]

@Charles,
Bravo for finding this. I nearly have fogotten about this awesome site.
Yeah. My professor used this to teach my other classmates how to start
using version control.



On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Charles Stanhope <charles at stanho.pe> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> > Hi all --
> >
> > I seem to have volunteered to teach a bunch of physics grad students
> > and postdocs the basics of version control with Mercurial. Do you know
> > about any teaching materials I can "borrow" to get started? I suspect
> > the audience differs from programmers in several ways:
> >
> >   * might never even heard of version control, never mind used it
> >
> >   * doesn't really care about the craft of writing maintainable
> >     software -- the hook is more likely to be "get back the code that
> >     worked last week, collaborate easily with your buddy/supervisor,
> >     have an offsite backup"
> >
> >   * more likely to put giant binary data files into version control
> >     rather than giant binary dependencies or build outputs...
> >     it's still wrong, but differently wrong ;-)
> >
> >   * might be tempted to put small textual analysis results under
> >     version control, which I strongly suspect is wrong
> >
> > BTW, any tips/ideas/insights into teaching Mercurial to scientists
> > would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> There may be useful resources here:
>
> http://software-carpentry.org/
>
> They describe themselves as "Software Carpentry helps researchers be
> more productive by teaching them basic computing skills."
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