Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Software carpentry Bootcamp day1

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Vendor require check payment for breakfast. We arranged PO and it satisfied the vendor.
Note: Morning traffic should be factored in during travel.

There were 65 online registration, and about 35 attended. (2 new people showed up on day 2, so total unique people is 37).

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Use pink and green pos-tit.  Pink indicates asking for help.

Use Mo-pad to give commands
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/2014-06-10-spelman

Morning on Unix shell and Git.
 In windows, git-bash show some directory error when running "git clone ....".  Major files of the direction are cloned, so we ignored the error.

10am: There are 32 participants + 2 instructors.
Later, a couple more people showed up.

The bootcamp ended at 4:30pm.  Participants wrote their comments on the postIt.  Some said too slow, some said too fast. Some ask for explicit key-board short-cut explanations. 

Useful keyboard short cuts include:
shell: tab, arrows
ipython: shift-enter -> 'run'


Note:
->About half of the participants did not install before bootcamp. Most users use Windows.
->"git clone" ran into a compatability problem with Windows. Users were asked to download Github repot in zip file.
->Users with osX sometimes have older versions.
In one case, Xcode was installed without command-line tools, and this leads to "git clone" running errors.

Afternoon on ipython
shift-enter -> 'run'

Problems
A common problem is the windows firewall block ipython access to notebook. We can disable windows firewall.

Another common problem is to "ipython notebook" not in the same directory with the data file.

We had a break at 2pm. About 10 people left during the break.
After 3:30pm, many undergraduates started web surfacing. There are 23 participants + 2 instructor left.






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