Tips and Tricks, Common Problems, Items of Note

Making a handout

To make a handout for this lesson, adapt/print from https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-data-intro/reference.

Regular Expressions

To teach regular expressions, instructors have used:

• slides to quiz the audience on examples.
• Pen and paper, to work through exercises before using a tool and to explain that there can be multiple answers to the same question.
• Whiteboard with text examples and quized participants on regex approaches.
• Online tools such as: Regxr, regex101, rexegper, myregexp, or whichever service you prefer.
• Used quiz/exercise files in https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/lc-data-intro/tree/gh-pages/files.

General guidance:

• Due to time constraints, it is best to choose the exercises that match the needs of the local community that will be attending the workshop.
• Point to lesson quiz and exercises for additional practice/homework.