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== General Feedback ==
One suggestion to try to address this is to add an additional
* The spacing between sessions too much. In part, this was due to the fact that we were creating curriculum as we went. Next time, we will try to do the sessions every other week (e.g., 3 sessions in 5 weeks).▼
* The breaks for lunch were a bit too long. We took 1 hours breaks but 45 minutes would have been enough for everybody. Learners were interested in getting back in action.▼
* The general structure of the entire curriculum was not as clear as it might have been. This was at least in part because the details of what we would teach int he later sessions were not done but it led to questions. In the future, we should present this clearly up front.▼
▲* The spacing between sessions too
▲* The breaks for lunch were a bit too long. We took 1
▲* The general structure of the entire curriculum was not as clear as it might have been which led to some confusion. This was, at least in part, because the details of what we would teach
* We did not have enough mentors with experience using Python in Windows. We had many skilled GNU/Linux users and ''zero'' students running GNU/Linux. Most of the mentors used Mac OSX and most of the learners ran Windows.
* Although we did not use it as a recruitment or selection criteria, a majority of the participants in the session were women. Although we had a mix of men and women mentors, the fact that most of our mentors were male and most of
* The SWC-style sticky notes worked extremely well but were used less, and seemed to have less value, as we
In the future We might also want to spend time devoting more time explicitly to teaching: ▼
▲* Although we did not use it as a recruitment or selection criteria, a majority of the participants in the session were women. Although we had a mix, the fact that most of our mentors were male and most of he mentors were female set up a strange dynamic. If we expect to have a similar ratio in the future, we should recruit female mentors and, in particular, attract women to lead the afternoon sessions (all of the afternoon session leaders were male).
▲* The SWC-style sticky notes worked extremely well but were used less and seemed to have less value as we went along.
▲We might also want to spend time devoting more time explicitly to teaching:
* Debugging code
* Finding and reading documentation
* Troubleshooting and looking at StackExchange for answers to programming questions
=== Budget ===
For lunch we spent between $400 (pizza), $360 (a few less pizza), and $600 (for fancy Indian food). This was for 50 students and ~15 mentors but we assumed about 60 people would actually be there at each session. We also spent ~$50 in the mornings for coffee.
Most mentors could not make the
The rooms were free.
If you had a total budget would be in the order of $2000-2500, I think you could easily do a similar 3.5 day-long sessions. If we had a little more, we could do better than pizza for lunch.
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