Welcome to SWC

Mission

Make researchers in science, engineering, and medicine more productive by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing

Why?

• Scientists spend 40% of their time building or using software
• 96% are mostly self taught
• Standard industry knowledge and practices are not brought to academia

Who we are:

• Volunteer organization
• Scientists teaching scientists
• 281 Instructors have taught a workshop
• 265 Workshops for over 9000 learners

What we teach:

• automate repetitive tasks (shell)
• Track and share work (git and github)
• build modular (and reusable) code (python)
• Curate and interact with data (SQL)

What you can do:

• Become an instructor
  • you do not need to be an expert in all subjects
• Contribute to course materials
• Organize a workshop
• Build a community
• Help with astro DC lesson (at hack together day)

Day 1

• Shell
• Lunch
• Python
• Code Review

Day 2

• Version Control
• Lunch
• SQL
• Interacting with SQL via Python

http://bit.ly/swcaas231

Workshop

• post-its
  • questions
  • help
  • done
• etherpad: http://bit.ly/swcaas231-etherpad​
  • notes
  • questions
• course website: http://bit.ly/swcaas231
• repository: https://github.com/abostroem/2018-01-07-aas
• more info on SWC: http://software-carpentry.org
• Post to the etherpad
• Say hi to your neighbor