1. CLARIS Training on Matlab MATLAB & Practical Applications on Climate Variability Studies DCAO-UBA, Buenos Aires, 20-24 February 2006 Course delivered by Enricco Scoccimarro and Andrea Carril (INGV, Italy) 35 participants attended the course 21 participants completed the survey Comments The course gave me a vision of all that can be done with MATLAB (well, not all but a lot). Because the applications are so many, there was not enough time to understand many things, particularly we I was not familiarized with the basic program tools. I would like the course be not only on model data, but also on data files. I would have needed more time and less subjects to learn better each of the functions explained during the course. However, I should make the final evaluation of the course after sitting alone and patiently trying to solve a particular problem using MATLAB. This is a good and useful tool. There was not enough time. We finished the course knowing what a powerful tool Matlab is, but not sure of knowing how to use its functions. A discussion forum will be of help to improve this aspect.

2. CLARIS Training on Matlab MATLAB & Practical Applications on Climate Variability Studies DCAO-UBA, Buenos Aires, 20-24 February 2006 Comments (cont.) Maybe it was too intensive. It fits better participants who are familiarized with Matlab. It has been useful anyway. Thank you. It would have been good to have some more time to assimilate the concepts. Maybe two more hours of exercises, with the opportunity of consultations with the lecturers. Opinions on the course differ between students and graduates. This may be due to the lack of experience of students in dealing with problems to be solved and working independently.

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