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I taught this lesson yesterday and we spent a lot of time changing data from episode to episode:
- episode 2: north-pacific-gyre/2012-07-03/
- episode 3:
- create thesis directory
- two examples of data/filesystems that learners don't have in front of them
- episode 4: This is the one that was utterly confusing.
- molecules
- data directory for one exercise
- molecules
- data directory for another few exercises
- north-pacific-gyre/2012-07-03
- episode 5:
- creatures
- an exercise using molecules
- creatures for an example
- an exercise using molecules
- creatures
- north-pacific-gyre/2012-07-03
- exercises using molecules
- episode 6:
- molecules
- exercise using data/animal-counts/
- north-pacific-gyre/2012-07-03
- exercise using data-shell/molecules
- exercise using north-pacific-gyre/2012-07-03
I understand that there is value in
- demonstrating how to change directories repeatedly
- showing learners that these functions can be applied to many types of data
but I think this might underestimate the cognitive load of maintaining an understanding what types of data are in each file - what was the experiment conducted. I spent a lot of time reintroducing data sets rather than functions.
Maybe each episode could pick a single dataset to focus on? That way we do change directories and work with different types of data, but also have the opportunity to focus on the functions within episodes.