Test run feedback

[neocarlitos]

I organized a workshop on "Good practices in scientific software development" and had this lesson as part of the workshop (knowing full well that the lesson is still under development). I got some feedback after the workshop, so I'm sharing that here:

• Most participants found the recommendations were good to know, specially at the early stages of their PhD.
• Even so, some participants found that the pace was a bit slow and we could have gone through this part of the workshop a bit faster.
• On episode 3, the exercise "Highlighting the importance of metadata", a lot of participants struggled because of not remembering the names of actors, directors, etc, so that is something to think about.

[fpsom]

Thanks @neocarlitos ! That is extremely useful, thanks for letting us know of the feedback!

[orchid00]

Excellent @neocarlitos

I have a few burning questions to ask you.

• For point two of the feedback, do you think we need to go faster, or cut on content?
• How long did it take you to go through the 4 episodes?
• Did you added some setup instructions? If so, could you please add that as a PR for us to review?

[neocarlitos]

I would go a bit faster. I think I took about three hours.

I didn't add setup instructions, because the setup of the workshop expected learners to be familiar with python & git, so the starting point was that they already had everything setup.

[orchid00]

Thanks @neocarlitos

three hours sounds about right!

[orchid00]

I wanted to add a link to the lesson life cycle https://carpentries.github.io/curriculum-development/the-lesson-life-cycle.html ping @fmichonneau