LaTeX is hard for newbies to use. LaTeX is hard for people who have used it for years to use (i.e me).

I propose that we pull a lot of the stuff in CQR out and put it into readthedocs.

The big drawback which would prevent us from doing this for everything is that markdown doesn't do footnotes. However, a lot of the current CQR doesn't have footnotes. I don't think being able to nicely print

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Exercise Reading error Messages - Lesson "Error and Exceptions"
(http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/09-errors/index.html)

• As dictionaries are not introduced previously in lesson (maybe a consequence of reducing the lesson) I suggest the following:

1. Moving this exercise at the end of th

Hi there,

I've been working through the materials as part of instructor training and just have a few suggestions for edits and corrections for the Writing Good Software episode text (https://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/16-wrap-up/index.html).

Structure your project folder: First paragraph

'This' in place of 'It':

ItThis can be done completely manually, or with th

Admittedly, I'm not a pythonista, but I wonder whether there would be value in using bash versions of the three python scripts. For whatever reason, I'm running into problems with getting python installed correctly on my Mac. Once I got it pointed in the right direct, I ran into problems with installing numpy. It's quickly becoming a tutorial on installing python rather than make :)

I suspect the

The Survey table has a field called quant that holds what type of reading was taken. The values in this column are rad, sal, and temp. There is no legend that explains what these mean on the page where the data is introduced (the selecting data chapter). Much later in the course it's mentioned that these mean 'radiation', 'salinity' and 'temperature', but I think it would also be helpful