General Information

Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover managing the development of code with version control in Git. Participants will be encouraged to help one another.

For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: The course is aimed at postgraduate students and postdoctoral scientists who are familiar with basic programming concepts (like loops, conditionals, arrays, and functions) and would like to learn best practice techniques and tools to develop their software more effectively and productively.

Where: Seminar Room, Building 46. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (see below). They are also required to abide by Software Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: This workshop is being organised by the University of Southampton's Research Software Group. Please mail rsg-info@soton.ac.uk for more information.

What should I bring with me?

You must bring your own laptop! Before attending the workshop you need to install some useful and free software. For more information, see the software prerequisites.

Schedule

Workshop schedule can be found at the schedule page.