[BioEdu] Software Carpentry

Greg Wilson gvwilson at cs.utoronto.ca
Thu Aug 10 10:49:03 EDT 2006


Hi,

I've been developing a course on basic software skills for people with
backgrounds in science and engineering, rather than computer science.  It
was originally created for Los Alamos National Laboratory, but has been
run in several other places since, including the US Navy, the Space
Telescope Science Institute, CalTech, the University of Toronto, and
Indiana University.  Its aim is to introduce grad students in disciplines
ranging from astronomy through biochemistry to civil engineering to core
tools and skills that will help them spend less time wrestling with buggy
code, and more time doing science.  All the material is open source, and
available both on the web:

    http://www.swc.scipy.org

or through Subversion:

    http://swc.scipy.org/svn/swc

A short article discussing the course's aims is available here:

    http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/48548

I'd be very interested in feedback from the members of this list.  In
particular, what more do we need to do to the course to make it useful to
you, your colleagues, and your students?

Thanks,
Greg



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