More Detailed Feeback from Melbourne
How useful did you find the online software installation instructions?
| 76% | Very useful: I required no assistance with installing the software |
| 24% | Somewhat useful: I required minimal assistance with installing the software |
| 0% | Not very useful: I required significant assistance with installing the software I was unable to get most of the software installed |
How did you feel about the schedule?
| Too early | Fine | Too late | |
| 9:00am start | 3% | 93% | 3% |
| 4:30pm finish | 0% | 97% | 3% |
The lunch and tea breaks were:
| 3% | Too short |
| 93% | A good length |
| 3% | Too long |
What do you think is the ideal length of time for a bootcamp?
| 3% | 1 day |
| 33% | 2 days |
| 50% | 3 days |
| 13% | 1 week |
Rate the following topics in terms of how important you think they are for a weather/climate science audience.
| Must be taught | Take it or leave it | Take it out | |
| Intro to Python | 86% | 7% | 7% |
| Program design and testing | 97% | 3% | 0% |
| Version control | 83% | 14% | 3% |
| Regular expressions | 43% | 50% | 7% |
| Databases | 31% | 48% | 21% |
| Numpy | 57% | 32% | 11% |
In general, you found the content:
| 0% | Much too hard: I was struggling to keep up! |
| 14% | Slightly too hard |
| 66% | Just right |
| 17% | Slightly too easy |
| 3% | Much too easy: I was struggling to stay awake! |
"Online office hours" is a service provided by Software Carpentry where you can get online assistance over a 2 hour period once a week. Which item best describes your current engagement with that service?
| 0% | I've attended in the past but probably won't again |
| 7% | I've attended in the past and will do so again |
| 55% | I've never attended but probably will in future |
| 38% | I've never attended and probably never will |
If a bootcamp (of similar content) was held in conjunction with the AMOS conference in Hobart next February, do you think you would attend (i.e. as a refresher)?
| 18% | Yes |
| 32% | No |
| 50% | Maybe |