One of the recurring problems in our boot camps is that at any point, about 1/4 of people are lost, and 1/4 are bored. The only fix we can think of is to let people self-assess before arrival to determine whether this is the right thing for them or not (and to let instructors know more about who they're going to be teaching). We've used variations on the questionnaire below a couple of times with useful results; we'd appreciate feedback on:
1. Career stage:
2. Disciplines:
3. Platform:
4. A tab-delimited file has two columns: the date, and the highest temperature on that day. Produce a graph showing the average highest temperature for each month.
5. Write a short program to read a file containing columns of numbers separated by commas, average the non-negative values in the second and fifth columns, and print the results.
6. Check out a working copy of a project from version control, add a file called paper.txt, and commit the change.
7. In a directory with 1000 text files, create a list of all files that contain the word Drosophila, and redirect the output to a file called results.txt.
8. A database has two tables Scientist and Lab. The Scientist table's columns are the scientist's student ID, name, and email address; the Lab table's columns are lab names, lab IDs, and scientist IDs. Write an SQL statement that outputs a count of the number of scientists in each lab.
Originally posted 2012-11-13 by Greg Wilson in Assessment.
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