Event
Scientific training

Software Carpentry Workshop October 2017

Our goal is to help scientists become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing and task automation.

Start date:

10 October 2017

End date:

11 October 2017

Time:

10h00 - 17h30

Venue:

Earlham Institute

Organiser:

Emily Angiolini

Enquiries:

training@earlham.ac.uk

Registration deadline:

05 October 2017

Cost:

£40.00

About the event.

Important information
Please note, you will be required to bring your own laptop for the purposes of this workshop.

Our goal is to help scientists become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing and task automation. In this two-day bootcamp, short tutorials will alternate with hands-on practical exercises. Participants will be encouraged both to help one another, and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions.
What are the objectives of the course?

You will learn to:

use the shell to do more in less time
automate your tasks and pipelines
write structured programs
use Git to manage and share information
how (and how much) to test programs

Target Audience
The course is aimed at researchers in the life science and computational science disciplines at all career stages. We particularly encourage students and post-doctoral scientists to attend, but the course is open to everyone.

Prerequisites
This is aimed at trainees with very little or no prior knowledge of programming.