Carpentries next level - CodeRefinery model

Sabry Razick, 20-07-2020

What is next level ?

• Software carpentry is focused on providing basic skills needed to start going through a peer assisted learning pedagogy.
• Once these basics are mastered and start applying on real world scenarios a deeper knowledge of certain aspects is needed.
• These more advanced topics can not be directly appended to existing material due to reasons like;
  • The topics becomes overly complicated and not suited for the carpentry style introduction
  • More experience instructors on the topic needed to deliver the lessons.
  • The target audience is more narrow, so would not fit in a general software carpentry workshop
  • For example:
    • When using git in the real world more details about branches is needed than what is thought in “Version Control with Git”

CodeRefinery model

• Inspired by the Carpenters project and follow Carpentry pedagogy
• Provide the next level lessons (as described before)
• It is funded by Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration ( NeIC ) and most instructors are indirectly financed so not a fully voluntary effort
• Lessons are developed with the intention of Carpentries would absorb the teaching material in the future.