Alpha-testing Matlab novice material
Over the last months, we’ve been busy helping to develop the new lesson materials for the software carpentry Matlab novice workshop.
Last Thursday, we finally did a test run in a small group to get some feedback on the material and for our instructor Isabell. To give ourselves a challenge, we invited Amy, a professional teacher who had never programmed in her life.
We were all really happy with the material and will be teaching it in February during ResBaz.
Here is what participants can look forward to:
- Introduction to the Matlab environment.
- What’s a variable, and what can you do with it?
- Reading in data into a useful format.
- Processing data in a repeatable way using scripts and functions.
- Visualising data.
- Decision-making in the code.
- How to reliably and effectively test your code to ensure it does what it’s supposed to do.
And on top of this, we’ll also have a small session telling participants which tricks in Matlab made our life easier and our research better.
The material needs a tiny bit of tweaking but will be ready in February.
And during our alpha-test, Amy couldn’t only follow, but rocked the programming challenges.
