This afternoon, I had 3h (including 10 min break) to present web scraping. I presented from https://ctds-usyd.github.io/2017-07-03-resbaz-webscraping/. I am not a trained SWC instructor, and not used to the narrative format of SWC lessons. I am also an experienced software engineer, so while I am used to some amount of teaching, it was hard for me to recall how much ground work there is to this topic. In the context of ResBaz, I was presenting to a group of research students, librarians, ?academics, etc. from Sydney universities. I did not get anything in the way of a survey, but hope to ask the ResBaz organisers to email students for their comments.
There were about 22 students, though 40 had signed up. Despite the Library Carpentry resolutions of a few weeks ago to focus on coding scrapers, I had decided to make something accessible to non-coders. In the end, we did not cover the coding part at all. I don't think we suffered greatly for this.
This afternoon, I had 3h (including 10 min break) to present web scraping. I presented from https://ctds-usyd.github.io/2017-07-03-resbaz-webscraping/. I am not a trained SWC instructor, and not used to the narrative format of SWC lessons. I am also an experienced software engineer, so while I am used to some amount of teaching, it was hard for me to recall how much ground work there is to this topic. In the context of ResBaz, I was presenting to a group of research students, librarians, ?academics, etc. from Sydney universities. I did not get anything in the way of a survey, but hope to ask the ResBaz organisers to email students for their comments.
There were about 22 students, though 40 had signed up. Despite the Library Carpentry resolutions of a few weeks ago to focus on coding scrapers, I had decided to make something accessible to non-coders. In the end, we did not cover the coding part at all. I don't think we suffered greatly for this.
read more: https://github.com/data-lessons/library-webscraping-DEPRECATED/issues/41
Also germane to this is this issue: https://github.com/data-lessons/library-webscraping-DEPRECATED/issues/30