Oslo and Columbia

Here's some feedback from participants in our Oslo workshop:

Good

Discovered a dishwasher
Test-driven development
Lots of anecdotes
Power plugs and coffee!
Jokes (no, really)
Reminded me why I should use version control
Inspirational
Discovering the web page
Not slaughtered by Vikings (yet)
Good teaching skills
Free!

Bad

Lunch at twelve, please
Didn't cover SQL
Need to show code and output side by side
Couldn't keep up with typing
Greg speaks too fast
Not good context for some examples
Matrix programming lacked exercises and examples
More exercises please
34 registered, 15 attended
Tell us more about installation
Lack of key point summaries
Too short

And from our Columbia University workshop in New York City (see also this great writeup from the course instructor, Dr. Rachel Schutt):

Good

Lot of new information
Collaboration!
Pair programming
Programming can be elegant!
Many practical hints on productivity
New Python tricks
Liked evidence-based anecdotes
Clustered necessary things together
Interaction with students
Breaks were perfectly timed
Epd installation (yay!)

Bad

Installation hell
Too much focus on impractical details
Struggled to get code off screen into my machine
No conversation about base knowledge
Too little on data scrubbing
Not enough practical answers
Got totally lost (not time to copy examples)
No chance to write down URLs etc.
Too early for Saturday
Doesn't leave enough time for homework
Epd was hell to uninstall
How to apply to R
Out-of-order examples

Greg Wilson 2012-09-30
Columbia University University of Oslo

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