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Narrative Needed
To align further with the standard Carpentries approach the technical content should be wrapped up in a narrative that can serve as a template for participants to imagining themselves fitting into. I suspect that hpc-novice and hpc-shell should each have their own narrative such that they can be done independently but they could build as long as hpc-novice provided whatever files hpc-shell might produce.
Thoughts?
Yes, yes, yes! You are right on the spot. In HPC-in-a-day, I did use a narrative which needs some improvement perhaps. I am planning on sending PRs based on that, so some narrative in hpc-shell/hpc-intro would be nice. So I hereby propose to use 'Lola' again. ;)
I like the idea in #7 very much. I think this should go into the landing page or into _episodes/00-hpc-intro.md. I am more inclined by the latter. This could serve as the basis for the narrative.
Yes, into 00-hpc-intro. Also into whatever the first episode of hpc-shell is.
Perhaps we set up hpc-shell as setting up the environment for hpc-intro? Creating some folders, pulling data onto the server, renaming a file or two, etc. This would allow for one narrative---Lola---but two jumping off points: one where Lola already has the environment set up (straight to hpc-intro) and one where she doesn't (hpc-shell). The first thing done in hpc-intro if hpc-shell was skipped would be to quickly download and unpack a set of files and folders that replicated what was done in hpc-shell. That would be pretty clean, no?
It may be helpful to use software carpentry shell lesson. Most carpentries lessons have setup instructions, so while some knowledge from other lessons can be required, it is helpful to have a fresh setup in each case. If this can be done, this issue can probably be closed.
Alien visitor from a 1-D reality who's never seen a circle before would fit in with (and motivate) the pi example codes. Using a human name might imply aspersions being cast on those who share it; perhaps Slartibartfast, renowned pangalactic geometer, would be a better namesake.
