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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon datacarpentry

Instructor notes out of date

Open raybellwaves opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments

Are the instructor notes out of date for the lesson? http://datacarpentry.org/python-ecology-lesson/guide/

For example, the first few lines in the instructor notes mention how to download python on MacOS using homebrew. Whereas, in the lesson the instructions are to download python using anaconda/miniconda https://datacarpentry.org/python-ecology-lesson/setup.html

In addition, there is a mis match between the section labelled 'Grouping Challenges' and Lesson 3 https://datacarpentry.org/python-ecology-lesson/02-starting-with-data/index.html

raybellwaves avatar Aug 07 '18 01:08 raybellwaves

You are correct. Merging #305 took care of most of this. I'll handle the installation issues right now, but I'm going to keep this issue open for two things:

  • [ ] plotting lesson instructor guide
  • [ ] SQL lesson instructor guide

Contributing to either of these would be a fantastic instructor training checkout exercise!

Thanks for noting this - I'm sure a future new instructor looking for a checkout exercise will appreciate it!

wrightaprilm avatar Aug 07 '18 15:08 wrightaprilm

hi @wrightaprilm

I found little typos on the guide, section Checking installations it should refer to _includes/scripts

orchid00 avatar Nov 27 '18 22:11 orchid00

Oh, thanks for condensing this under an existing issue. I went ahead and committed a fix to this.

wrightaprilm avatar Nov 27 '18 22:11 wrightaprilm

I'd be happy to have a crack at adding those last two sections to the instructor guide for my checkout process, if that's useful?

hot007 avatar Apr 11 '20 10:04 hot007

That would be great! Thanks, @hot007.

maxim-belkin avatar Apr 11 '20 15:04 maxim-belkin

Yes, this was a major in a course I took, and the instructor sighted and used a MAC. What happened in the course Mac users and non mac users were separated, Non Mac Users were behind, while Mac Users had a greater advantage to keep up. Non Mac Users were sent into a break out room for a hew hours at a time. However, we could not keep-up. We could listen to the curriculum course instruction, but not the modules. I could not keep up, myself was behind a day 1/2. Would be better to separate users into break out room into mac users and nonusers with two pathways with helpers. would be a instruction adaptation.

grajadiva81 avatar Dec 15 '22 15:12 grajadiva81

Fixed in b26d5c8

btovar avatar May 19 '23 11:05 btovar