Gerard Capes

Remove previous maintainers from README

Make file tree diagrams uniform and scripted?

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There are various diagrams illustrating a file tree in this lesson. Some in the main body of episode 2 which I guess were manually created, and some in the exercises...

Fix #1315.

Ep3: Explain recursive copy a bit better

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https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/03-create/index.html#copying-files-and-directories Here we copy a directory recursively. It isn't a particularly clearly motivated example though, given there is only one file in the directory being copied. I'm not suggesting adding...

Set realistic timings for episodes

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Currently teaching all episodes takes around 6 hours, rather the advertised 3. This demotivating for instructors.

Ep3: Moving to the current folder - use different file extensions?

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This exercise is a thought experiment, but it isn't really clear why the two files are in the wrong directory. They're all `*ose.dat` files. If the file ending or name...

Ep 05: Write a loop from scratch

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Following on from #1155, I think there would be a lot of value to an exercise where learners must write a loop from scratch.

Ep7 Tracking a species: exercise too difficult?

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http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/07-find/index.html#tracking-a-species This exercise doesn't really target the learning objectives of the episode. The main concepts tested in the exercise are pipes and filters, and interpreting the man pages to learn...

Nelle identifies a file which only has 240 lines, and the narrative explains this sample needs re-running through the assay machine to generate the full 300-line output. However, we just...

Should this be followed using jupyter notebook, spyder or interactively?

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These options are all mentioned in the setup episode, but no instruction is given. The output suggests this should be followed interactively, given `print` isn't required to print a variable...