First Meta Meeting

[phcerdan]

Massey Study Group Meeting

Where to put content:

https://github.com/phcerdan/MasseySG-Resources

Developing social momentum.

• Ask Massey for advertisement.
• Driven by learners.

Mozilla Study Group.

• Think of setting up a Mozilla Study Group: See Otago example: https://github.com/OtagoStudyGroup/studyGroup

R:

• Involving Staff/Instructors content.
• Project design: scaling up R projects. Packaging.
• Best practices: Unit testing, debugging.
• Rcpp, scaling up, parallelization, HPC.
• Tool to measure Performance.

David Winter, experience on going to package.
Cran?

Latex Workshop 2.0

• Find out about latex thesis document. Stephen Marshall(?).
• Upload to repository.

HPC

• Massey subscription to Nesi. (Patrick)
• Modifications of code to jump from laptop to Nesi.
• Intro to HPC.

Python.

• Object Oriented Programming in Python3.

Interested in wrapping scripting languages to C++.

• Cython.
• Rcpp
• SWIG. C++ to whatever.

Ipython and Jupiter Notebooks

• SageCloud (online): https://cloud.sagemath.com/#settings.

SSH and Linux terminal

• Right now: VPN, and then ssh. Interest in direct gateway?
• Send files to/from massey. https://zendto.massey.ac.nz/

Linux installation. Dual boot / Virtual Machine

• Work

Starting in git.

• Thesis!

Intermediate Git. Collaborators, and mergetools.

• Work in this.