datacarpentry / semester-biology

Forkable teaching materials for course on working with data in R
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Place earlier emphasis on reproducible code #1022

Closed ethanwhite closed 5 days ago

ethanwhite commented 9 months ago

Despite moving to posit cloud we still have consistent issues with students turning in code that doesn't run. We should return to spending time in weeks 1 & 2 introducing the importance of reproducible code and then immediately enforce it as part of grading to help students learn the essential skills. It's rushing things a little bit, but when we don't set the expectation early in the semester students get comfortable with code that won't run and that will cause them issues in the long-run