Teaching Software Carpentry

Luke Lee

May 13, 2013, 6:29 am

I’m a Software Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry. I primarily write Python GUI applications to visualize and interpret various types of industry data. I’ve also spent several years writing...

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This is my attempt at trying to give a high-level organization to the core built-in Python data types and their uses. I avoided including other ‘types’ like object, type, etc. to simplify the map as...

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Python novice/intermediate/expert assessment

June 17, 2013, 2:36 pm

Novice question: Select all of the following Python data structures that do NOT have guaranteed order when looping with a standard ‘for’ loop: a) List b) Set c) Tuple d) Dict e) String Experienced...

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Screencast idea proposal

June 26, 2013, 5:09 pm

My short 3 minute screencast is going to show students how to: Make a web API request in Python Decode JSON that is returned from the request Turn data into simple CSV that could then be exported into...

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Screencast software/tips?

June 30, 2013, 11:49 am

Does anyone have recommendations for what software to use when making a screencast? I’ve never made one before so I’m not even sure what features, glitches, etc. I should expect or want. Also, any...

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Screencast to send web requests to NikePlus API

July 12, 2013, 5:09 pm

I’m making a new post for my screencast video. I posted a lengthy comment on my original post, http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/2013/06/26/screencast-idea-proposal/, but I wasn’t sure if anyone...

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Tutorial critique: Regular expressions

July 28, 2013, 9:49 am

I watched all of the regular expressions videos and overall I thought they were well narrated and packed full of useful information. The pacing was nicely done. Also, the incremental approach of...

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Testing effectiveness of live tutoring vs. recorded video

July 29, 2013, 6:21 am

Regarding our live-tutoring sessions, Luke chose to teach an introduction to Python’s virtualenv, and Philipp chose to teach a fast introduction to Go (the programming language). Here’s how we think...

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Final project: Analyzing csv data in Pandas and IPython notebook

August 20, 2013, 7:40 am

Description: I’m going to demonstrate the following for my final project: Open IPython notebook Read csv with Pandas Plot different columns with Pandas/matplotlib plotting in notebook Save notebook to...

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