Plans for 2015: Lessons

You can also see what entirely new lessons will look like. This lesson (which is rendered here) takes a bibliography embedded in a spreadsheet and converts it to a single-table database so that we can ask questions like, "Who has co-authored papers with whom?" Along the way, we show learners how to use the shell, Python, Git, and SQL together, so the lessons serves as a good half-hour capstone at the end of a two-day workshop.

We obviously still have a lot of work to do, but I hope we're finally in sight of a system that will make it so easy for instructors to add their personal notes to our lessons that they will routinely do so. As I've argued elsewhere, that would be the start of a real revolution.

p.s. If you'd like to help finish the "bibliography in a spreadsheet" lesson, please file an issue, send a pull request, or just send an email—like our other lessons, it will need a maintainer.