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Add links to the "setup" section #276

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arokem opened this issue Jan 9, 2016 · 11 comments
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Add links to the "setup" section #276

arokem opened this issue Jan 9, 2016 · 11 comments

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@arokem
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arokem commented Jan 9, 2016

Is it possible to add the links to the data that people will need in the workshop to the "setup" section? For example, the link to http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/python-novice-inflammation-data.zip for the Python session.

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wking commented Jan 9, 2016

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:54:50PM -0800, Ariel Rokem wrote:

Is it possible to add the links to the data that people will need in
the workshop to the "setup" section? For example, the link to
http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/python-novice-inflammation-data.zip
for the Python session.

The difficulty with that is that it depends on which lessons you're
teaching. It would be possible to automate link injection if we have
lesson-authors declare their downloads (along the lines of the
dependency declaration I've suggested with
wking/swc-setup-installation-test#9). Collecting the links by hand
shouldn't be too difficult (like editing CHECKS isn't too difficult),
but one less thing for instructors to worry about would be nice.

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arokem commented Jan 9, 2016

Whether you teach Python or R (and we always teach one or the other, no?), you always need learners to download a set of files, no? So, we could add that under the "R" or "Python" heading in the static text.

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arokem commented Jan 9, 2016

Also: at least the "novice inflammation" files seem to be identical for both lessons. Are they?

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arokem commented Jan 9, 2016

Relatedly: swcarpentry/r-novice-inflammation#163

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wking commented Jan 9, 2016

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 09:22:46AM -0800, Ariel Rokem wrote:

Whether you teach Python or R (and we always teach one or the other,
no?), you always need learners to download a set of files, no?

Yeah 1, but as far as I know, they don't have to be [2,3]. For
example, you could use [4,5] and maybe eventually 6, or your own
personal Python lesson, etc. Filling in links to datasets for our
main lessons 7 would be better than nothing, but I'd rather have the
lessons themselves declare their download links (if any) in the lesson
repository in a automatically-discoverable way. Maybe we should do
both, adding both links to the standard downloads and a script to
replace them with downloads for other lessons/versions in case the
standard ones aren't what you need?

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iglpdc commented Jan 10, 2016

Another option would be to have a template for the Etherpad. I typically write the links to the files to download in the Etherpad with some other info (which is kinda silly to do over and over :) ). So maybe having a text file that instructors can copy-paste into the Etherpad would be nice.

But my preferred way will be add this as a new entry in the lesson JSON file proposed by @wking.

(We can also do all of the above too...)

wking added a commit to wking/workshop-template that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2016
So we can collect a list of everything learners will need for the
workshop [1].

[1]: carpentries#276
wking added a commit to wking/workshop-template that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2016
So we can collect a list of everything learners will need for the
workshop [1].

[1]: carpentries#276
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rgaiacs commented Jan 23, 2016

Another option would be to have a template for the Etherpad.

I thought that we have one. Did we remove it?

wking added a commit to wking/workshop-template that referenced this issue Mar 24, 2016
So we can collect a list of everything learners will need for the
workshop [1].

[1]: carpentries#276
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gvwilson commented Sep 6, 2016

Any advance on this? Anyone want to work on it?

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Denubis commented Apr 23, 2019

So I ran into this in my workshop as well. One thing I thought about was to have a

Lesson data

That at least enjoined learners to go to the right setup pages.

I can create a list of links to setup pages and we can make a todo for instructors to remove ones that don't match -- do we think this is the least worst approach?

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I think this was partially implemented as part of #608 (at least for DC workshops). We also have carpentries/maintainers-RFCs#4 to discuss a similar approach for SWC and LC workshops. Closing in favor of having discussions there.

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