Welcome and Introduction
Last updated on 2024-03-14 | Edit this page
Overview
Questions
- What topics in this workshop most appeal to you?
- What goals do you have in attending this workshop?
Objectives
- Participants and instructors get to know each other
- Learn to use Etherpad to accompany this lesson
- Agree Carpentries Code of Conduct
- Reflect on what you want to get out of this workshop
Introduction
This is a lesson created via The Carpentries Workbench. It is written in Pandoc-flavored Markdown for static files and R Markdown for dynamic files that can render code into output. Please refer to the Introduction to The Carpentries Workbench for full documentation.
What you need to know is that there are three sections required for a valid Carpentries lesson:
-
questions
are displayed at the beginning of the episode to prime the learner for the content. -
objectives
are the learning objectives for an episode displayed with the questions. -
keypoints
are displayed at the end of the episode to reinforce the objectives.
Challenge 1: Can you do it?
What is the output of this command?
R
paste("This", "new", "lesson", "looks", "good")
OUTPUT
[1] "This new lesson looks good"
Challenge 2: how do you nest solutions within challenge blocks?
You can add a line with at least three colons and a
solution
tag.
Figures
You can use standard markdown for static figures with the following syntax:
![optional caption that appears below the figure](figure url){alt='alt text for accessibility purposes'}
Callout
Callout sections can highlight information.
They are sometimes used to emphasise particularly important points but are also used in some lessons to present “asides”: content that is not central to the narrative of the lesson, e.g. by providing the answer to a commonly-asked question.
Math
One of our episodes contains \(\LaTeX\) equations when describing how to create dynamic reports with {knitr}, so we now use mathjax to describe this:
$\alpha = \dfrac{1}{(1 - \beta)^2}$
becomes: \(\alpha = \dfrac{1}{(1 - \beta)^2}\)
Cool, right?
Key Points
- By following the Code of Conduct you will help create a welcoming and supportive environment for all people
- You can use the Etherpad document alongside the lesson website to complete written exercises
- This training will help you think critically about ethics and methods when using web data about music