How to Become Rich, Famous, and Popular While Using Your Programming Skills to Make the World a Better Place
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What could programmers build to help scientists use computers in their day-to-day work? The answer might surprise you.
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How to Become Rich, Famous, and Popular While Using Your Programming Skills to Make the World a Better Place
- 1. How to Become Rich, Famous, and Popular While Using Your Programming Skills to Make the World a Better Place (Maybe) Greg Wilson
- 2. 2 5-15% use GPU clusters to analyze petabytes in the cloud 85-95% send each other spreadsheets by email Scientists
- 3. 3 It Is Therefore Obvious That... We should put more computing in the curriculum! But it's already full
- 4. 4 It Is Therefore Obvious That... And even if we did... ...who would teach those classes?
- 5. 5 If you build a man a fire, you'll keep him warm for a night. If you set a man on fire, you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life. ¡ª Terry Pratchett
- 6. 6 What We Teach Unix shell Version control Python/R/MATLAB SQL Make
- 7. 7 What We Actually Teach Unix shell => Task automation Version control => Track and share work Python/R/MATLAB => Modular programming SQL => Data management Make => Reproducibility
- 8. 8 How We Teach ¡ñ Peer instructors ¡ñ Teach in pairs ¡ñ Learners use their own machines ¡ñ Live coding ¡ñ Sticky notes ¡ñ Collaborative note-taking ¡ñ Iterate, iterate, iterate...
- 14. 14 What We've Accomplished ¡ñ Honestly don't know ¡ñ Anecdotally, save people 10-20% of their time for the rest of their careers ¡ñ And prepare them for petabytes and clouds
- 15. 15 What I've Learned 1. We know a lot about learning 2. Most people would rather fail than change 3. There are lots of gaps to fill
- 17. 17 ¡ñ Today's MOOC platforms don't support PI ¡ñ Piotr Banaszkiewicz showed it's possible github.com/pbanaszkiewicz/peer-instruction ¡ñ Opportunity #1
- 18. 18 The Jupyter Notebook Text, math, code, and images What hypertext was meant to be
- 19. 19 The Jupyter Notebook { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 9, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [ { "data": { "image/png":"iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAArMAAAJA CAYAAACe4e6sAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAAlwSFlzn AAALEgAACxIB0t1+/AAAIABJREFUeJzs3XdYFFfbBvB7qSIsH ...
- 20. 20 The Jupyter Notebook { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 9, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [ { "data": { "image/png":"iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAArMAAAJA CAYAAACe4e6sAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAAlwSFlzn AAALEgAACxIB0t1+/AAAIABJREFUeJzs3XdYFFfbBvB7qSIsH ... Good luck diffing and merging this.
- 21. 21 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way Tavish Armstrong and others nbdiff.org Opportunity #2
- 22. 22 Generalizes Well First-class support for diffing and merging spreadsheets will get more scientists to use version control than anything else we can do.
- 23. 23 Generalizes Well First-class support for diffing and merging spreadsheets will get more scientists to use version control than anything else we can do. 3 developers x 8 months (?) (even if it's optimistic...)
- 24. 24 Speaking of Version Control ¡ñ Git is an awful tool ¡ñ git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net ¡ñ But it's the price people have to pay in order to use GitHub
- 25. 25 Speaking of Version Control ¡ñ A rational re-design of Git is possible and worthwhile ¡ñ Opportunity #3 ¡ñ Also generalizes well Andreas Stefik and Susanna Siebert: "An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax." ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 13(4), Nov. 2013.
- 26. 26 A Puzzle ¡ñ Thousands contribute patches to open source software projects ¡ñ Millions have edited Wikipedia ¡ñ Why don't people build lessons this way?
- 27. 27 All Together Now ¡ñ We've shown it can be done ¡ñ And that it's useful ¡ñ This presents more opportunities
- 28. 28 A Small Part of the Reason ¡ñ ºÝºÝߣshow formats aren't diffable either ¡ñ But HTML alternatives are impoverished
- 29. 29 A Small Part of the Reason ¡ñ Neither can create web- native videos ¡ñ Proof: pause a video, highlight the text being displayed, and copy it
- 30. 30 Solution: Browsercast HTML slideshow... ...with start times for slides... ...and a player that syncs with audio github.com/twitwi/deck.browsercast.js-demo (Bonus marks for a GUI timestamp editor)
- 31. 31 Advantages ¡ñ Plays everywhere ¡ñ Mobile-friendly ¡ñ Accessible! ¡ñ Searchable! ¡ñ Diffable! (ish)
- 32. 32 To Sum Up ¡ñ First-class support for peer instruction ¡ñ Diff for all! (Excel first) ¡ñ A rational reconstruction of Git ¡ñ Browsercast ¡ñ Rocket science ¡ñ Fill in the gaps