An overview of the flow of the day

About Your Day

Hands-On Exercises

  • Lectures and brief hands-on exercises will be interleaved throughout the day. Deeper dive hands-on lessons will be in the evening.
  • Day-time hands-on will be brief runs of examples and exposure to key concepts following fairly structured lesson plans.
  • Evening hands-on will permit deeper dive into hands-on exercises of your choosing and with less structured lessons.
  • Subject matter experts (SMEs) will be available throughout the day and in the evening.

Fun and Prizes!

We have some fun prizes to give away at the end of the evening! The hands on exercises offer optional question and answer forms with the chance to gain points towards fun prizes at the end of the evening. These are optional and intended to be for fun. You are not equired to participate but we highly encourage it for a few reasons. First, its designed to be fun. Second, it helps us guage whether or not our training materials are really having the intended impact.

In addition, we’ve tried to create a few fun activities for the day including three Q&A games…

You can find these under the “Intro” menu as well. They will be open and active for the intervals specified above. You may have to refresh your browser to get to them once the links go active.

  • We have tried to design most of the hands-on lessons (day-time or evening) with questions for which you will submit Google Forms for your answers.
  • During day-time hands-on exercises, the expandable question-and-answer boxes inline with the lesson (which ordinarily show the correct answers) will be disabled but will provide a link to an associated Google From for you to submit your answers.
  • During most of the evening hands-on exercises, you will submit a Show-Your-Work Google form by going to the main menu (upper left of the site) Intro->Submit A Show Your Work. Be sure to include any relevant code snipits, images, and written description and analysis of your work.

Red Post-Its

For day-time hands-on exercises, you will be given a red sticky note to use if you encounter issues running hands on lessons. Instead of raising hands and interrupting the day-time lesson, we ask that you please place a red sticky note on the edge of your laptop display. Members of the numerical software team will be watching and roaming the room looking for anyone that has such notes flying and will provide assistance. We ask that you please wait for a member of the numerical software team to see it and come to help. If you correct the problem yourself before you have been helped, remove the red note and set it aside until you need it again. This protocol is necessary only during the day-time hands-on.

If you are running a Windows laptop or Chromebook, please be prepared to pair with someone on OSX or Linux sitting near you or just follow the pre-tested lesson content.

Subject Matter Expert Two-on-Ones

We are providing a sign-up form to arrange up to three, 20 minute two-on-one discussions with subject matter experts (SMEs) in the evening which you can also find under the Intro menu. If you are interested, please sign up by 4 pm CT (end of the afternoon break). After dinner, we will provide a schedule for evening two-on-ones. This is a great opportunity to discuss detailed issues with experts in the field. You will, of course, have to decide how best to balance any two-on-one discussions with your evening hands-on exercise activities as these activities will both occur concurrently. Finally, don’t forget to take advantage of time during breaks to visit with SMEs. We are here to help and happy to talk with you.

For Evening, Consider Working in Teams (2-4)

For the evening hands-on exercises, we encourage participants to work in teams of 2-4 people. First, this helps us to cut down the number of IT issues that may arise during hands-on exercises. Moreover, pair programming (the practice of having two people work together on one machine, each taking turns between typing and commenting) results in real-time code review, which research has shown results in higher productivity. Finally, if you are not using an OSX or Linux laptop, it would be best to try to pair with someone who is.

Today’s Agenda

The agenda for today’s presentations and hands-on exercises is available under the Intro menu on this site. This includes links to presentation slides, presenter information and hands-on lesson plans.

Chat Option

We will set up a Google Hangouts Chat starting the morning of the session. Expect to receive an email invite with the subject ATPESC2019 Numerical Packages Chat. We will also include a link under the Intro menu. We ask that you please exercise discretion and use this chat only for interactions as they pertain to today’s material and exercises.

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