2025-11-28

  • Day 2

  • Date: 2025-11-28

  • Author: Richel

After teaching

I was quite comfortable to start teaching, as the material was Good Enough. All I needed to add was the videos for Pelle.

The session went well: all learners were able to achieve the session goals before the end of the session, which was (1) download and untar the tarball, (2) load a Python package from a software module and verify it works.

Because 6 out of 7 learners got to know me from the day before, I cut some corners, e.g. not ask ‘Of the square root of 5, what is the twentieth digit behind the comma’ to bait a ‘I do not know’ and then me saying ‘That is OK’. I took some extra time at the start with the new learner to get her into the session.

After the observation of yesterday, I reminded myself to talk a bit slower during the introduction. At 9:25 the exercises started. One learner were done at 9:30 (after 5 minutes) minutes, most finished at around 9:40 (after 15 minutes) and the last one finished at the time of the break, 9:50 (after 25 minutes). Hence, the duration of the session is perfect!

I had a one-on-one with most learners. Most had at least one extra question and there was enough time to discuss this.

Survey at end

Course ratings All confidences Average confidence per question Confidences per question Course recommend

Evaluation results

Pace

  • It was very informative and fun

Unsure if this applies to me.

  • a little bit tight

I assume this does not apply to me.

  • The time allocated isolated environments and launching IDEs from the command line did not seem adequate

Does not apply to me.

  • no time for exercise so a bit to fast

I assume this does not apply to me.

Future topics

Future topics:

  • Me personally I want more about COSMOS-SENS but that is mainly as there is very little documentation at Lunarc about it

I agree.

  • NO

  • More advanced practical management of Conda/virtual environments on HPC, Workflow systems like Nextflow or Snakemake

I assume the Conda and venv teachers pick this up.

Unlike Nextflow, Snakemake seems a good fit, as it is intended to be Python-like.

Other comments

Other comments:

  • Exercises were a bit less clear today, which ones we should do and when was a little confusing. Content was very good though :)

  • NO

  • Because each hpc has different setup it is a bit uninteresting to walk through them all when I’m only concerned with the one I’m using