Day 9
Week two of Software Carpentry, and things are starting to settle down. There are now 93 (!) people signed up for the course:
| U of T | Elsewhere | |
|---|---|---|
| Auditing | 18 | 21 |
| Enrolled | 25 | |
| Unknown | 29 |
Of those actually at the University of Toronto (as opposed to the
local hospitals—a few radiologists are sitting in) the breakdown
is:
| 16 | Computer Science |
| 14 | Physics |
| 9 | Civil Engineering |
| Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | |
| 5 | Biochemistry |
| Institute for Aerospace Studies | |
| 2 | Institute of Medical Science |
| Mathematics | |
| 1 | Astronomy |
| Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering | |
| Botany | |
| Geology | |
| Medical Biophysics | |
| Zoology | |
| Non-degree student |
This week's lecture went much more smoothly than last week's, in part because we were in a larger room, with seating for everyone, and in part because the content was an introduction to Python, which I've given more times than I can count. There were still some glitches in the slides, though: a few things were out of order, and I really do need to choose more concrete examples. 33 students have completed the first exercise, which is already more than I'd expected—I'm feeling uncharacteristically optimistic right now ;-)
The past week has also CSC49X, the fourth-year Computer Science project course. 23 students are working on 10 different projects (24 and 11 respectively, if you count Sean Dawson's paid-but-not-for-course-credit work on a sequence diagram debugger plugin for Eclipse). DrProject (our Trac-derived project management system) is holding up so far, and we're almost finished setting it up for two other courses to use this term as well. Not bad for Day 9 of term; not bad at all.