The following are the statistics obtained from the audience after the BITS Goa workshop conducted from 31 October to 1 November 09:
Day 1
- Range of topics covered:
- 22.7% of the people felt that the range of topics covered were very relevant.
- 66.7% of the people felt that the range of topics covered were relevant.
- 10.7% of the people felt that the range of topics covered were somewhat relevant.
- Depth of coverage
- 78.7% of the people felt that the depth of coverage was detailed.
- 18.7% of the people felt that the depth of coverage was not detailed enough.
- Effectiveness of methodology
- 37.33% of the people felt that the teaching methodology was extremely effective.
- 61.33% of the people felt that the teaching methodology was effective.
- 18.7% of the people felt that the teaching methodology was not very effective.
- Pace of coverage
- 33.3% of the people felt that the the pace of coverage was fast.
- 64% of the people felt that the pace of coverage was just right.
- Applicability
- 30.67% of the people felt that they can apply what they have learnt immediately.
- 49.33% of the people felt that they can apply what they have learnt somewhat immediately.
- 20% of the people felt that they cannot apply what they have learnt immediately.
- Choice of Problems:
- 25.33% of the people felt that the problems were very interesting.
- 52% of the people felt that the the problems were interesting.
- 21.33% of the people felt that the problems were somewhat interesting.
- Choice of Exercises:
- 32% of the people felt that the exercises were very instructive.
- 57.33% of the people felt that the exercises were instructive.
- 10.67% of the people felt that the exercises were somewhat instructive.
General Comments
1 Enjoyed the hands-on session
2 It's really good to organize these types of workshops. If it's possible then organize these types of workshop on some other language also.
3 I liked the approach/methodology of training
4 It will be better if first tell some pre-required command like how to clean the screen and if any mistake happen, how to edit the command line. When to close the figure and when not after every command. Otherwise it is very interesting session and I have enjoyed very much. Thanks for having it.
5 could've briefed about it's features first; need a bit of slow pace, since everyone is not of same background.
6 may be the participands could be told what they should know about math specific content they should know in advance.
7 Legendary, awesome, great
8 I will find it very useful
9 Good work!
10 Brilliantly conducted. The workshop has come at a perfecct time for me, helping me in my current project.
11 Good job!!!!!!
12 V. Good
13 Conducted in a nice manner
14 This is more about solving the mathematical problem. Not much related to development of application which we are supposed to do.
15 Splendid work, real perfection. Thanks and congrats! [Perfectly detailed = empoweringly detailed , not-burdebbbningly detailed]
16 Was good.
17 Useful
18 Good workshop. Open source?
19 Good workshop
20 Brilliant workshop & methodology. A very nice experience, learnt a lot about a new language. Amazing effort by the fossee team.
21 Great!
22 Very good session. Numerical techniques like quadrature and differentiation and plotting multi-dimensional arrays needs more time.
23 Should explain method mathematically
24 It would be very good if a few sample programs are explained line by line, it might help to grasp the syntax
25 Great experience!!
26 More stress on general purpse python and open source packages than focusing only on the EPD package(which is non-free for non-educational use) [pace of coverage - alternating b/w fast and slow]
27 More focus on general purpse python than EPD (non-free for non-educational use)
28 More focus on general python
29 Can give much interesting questions for quizzes
30 I didn't expect it to be like this. I thought it would be boring. But I actually found it interesting. :)
31 Please be clear about the topics to be covered before the workshop
32 Please do not discuss in-depth programming logi. That must be the programmer's functionality.
33 I know this was more education based, but as a security and pen testing enthusiast I'd have loved to hear more about the netsec applications of python. Maybe next time. :) :)
34 Perhaps reading material can be supplied a day or two in advance, some prior preparation will make it easier to follow the instructions.
35 Learnt a lot with the extremely hands on methodology. Little more detail and other applications apart from the research and engineering field should be discussed.
36 To u we are expecting some imp shift in programming point of view. I am very grateful. Thank you.
Day 2
- Range of topics covered:
- 27.6% of the people felt that the range of topics covered were very relevant.
- 60.3% of the people felt that the range of topics covered were relevant.
- 12.1% of the people felt that the range of topics covered were somewhat relevant.
- Depth of coverage
- 82.8% of the people felt that the depth of coverage was detailed.
- 17.2% of the people felt that the depth of coverage was not detailed enough.
- Effectiveness of methodology
- 29.3% of the people felt that the teaching methodology was extremely effective.
- 67.2% of the people felt that the teaching methodology was effective.
- Pace of coverage
- 34.5% of the people felt that the the pace of coverage was fast.
- 58.6% of the people felt that the pace of coverage was just right.
- Applicability
- 24.1% of the people felt that they can apply what they have learnt immediately.
- 56.9% of the people felt that they can apply what they have learnt somewhat immediately.
- 12.1% of the people felt that they cannot apply what they have learnt immediately.
- Choice of Problems:
- 37.9% of the people felt that the problems were very interesting.
- 48.3% of the people felt that the the problems were interesting.
- 13.8% of the people felt that the the problems were somewhat interesting.
- Choice of Exercises:
- 32.8% of the people felt that the exercises were very instructive.
- 62.1% of the people felt that the exercises were instructive.
General Comments
1. mlab should be more concentrated on, too less time spent on Mayavi and 3D
2. Good overview of Python and 3D visualization using Mayavi
3. Great experience.
4. Good job!!!
5. Was great having you guys in Goa. I have completely fallen in love with it and will definitely explore it(Python) much more. Thanks guys!!
6. Very well planned workshop.
7. Useful for new users.
8. Very nicely presented. Thanks for this.
9. Numerical part should be dealt with more with 'string' operation ???
10. Awesome.
11. Mayavi \m/.
12. Excellent.
13. Very well preparation. Even second half was productive and instructive.
14. Conducting those quiz were very effective.
15. Mayavi presentation was good.