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1. Texas Tech Bootcamp

   Texas Tech Bootcamp

   This last weekend, John Fonner and I taught a Software Carpentry bootcamp for scientists in Texas Tech's Atmospheric Science group. I've brought on board Eric Bruning to discuss what worked and didn't in the workshop. Overall, evaluations have been really good. But we're ...

2. Solicitation on flipping the script

   So I wrote a [blog post](http://wrightaprilm.github.io/posts/lonely.html) that went a little bit viral the other day. And a lot of people have asked in the past couple days what can be done to improve the atmosphere at programming meetings. I've been chewing on ...

3. Thoughts on my first programming conference

   I went to SciPy this week. I'd never been to a programming conference before, and they featured a lot of education talks.

   I wish I hadn't.

   Last night, at the Software Carpentry mixer, a grand total of 5 men shook my husband's hand and ignored mine. My ...

4. CCBB Wrap-Up

   This week was the CCBB's first ever Big Data in Biology summer school. I was the Python instructor. 4x3-hour-days, 16 students. Fun.

   What worked:

   • Topics: I think we had a good covering of what really matters in programming
   • Red/Green stickies: Red sticky on laptop = trouble, green = all good ...

5. CCBB Day One

   What worked

   • Base Python: People generally found Python intuitive* Hands-On: We did a lot of hands-on (about 25 minute per hour, plus a break every hour and a half)
   • Minute papers: We got a lot of good feedback from these

   What didn't

   • Installs: A few people hadn't installed ...

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