Software Carpentry Workshop
What is Software Carpentry?
- Teach computer skills for research tasks
- "get more done in less time with less pain"
- Since 1998
- 500 workshops, 16000 learners, 450 instructors
- Volunteer organization
Why is this useful?
- Improve productivity
- Fundamental tools (command line / programming language / version control)
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Otherwise difficult to learn
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Testimonials: https://software-carpentry.org/testimonials/
How does this work?
- Live coding - follow along - lots of typing
- Should have software installed (just need Bash shell for now)
- Green / red stickies to alert helpers and during exercises
- Raise hands to ask instructors to slow down
- Schedule
- Sign in sheet
- Etherpad: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/2018-04-11-gwu
- Pre-workshop survey
Code of Conduct
- Comfortable and enjoyable environment to learn
Instructors
- Abhijit Dasgupta
- Daniel Wheeler
- Hadi Mohammadi (helper)
- Liem Nguyen (helper)
- Jason Hurlburt (helper)
- Marco Suarez (helper)
- Kes Schroer (helper)
- Justin Littman (helper)
- Laura Wrubel (helper)
- Megan Potterbusch (helper)
Software Carpentry Workshop - GWU
By Daniel Wheeler
