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 skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including using the command-line, building and designing programs in Python, and 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 and arrays) and would like to learn best practise techniques and tools to develop their software more effectively and productively.

Requirements: Before attending the workshop you need to install some useful and free software. For more information, see the software prerequisites.

You must also abide by Software Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: This workshop is being organised by the University of Southampton's Research Software Group. Our talented team of Research Software Engineers is dedicated to ensuring that software developed for research at the University of Southampton is the best it can be.

• We offer a full range of Software Development Services, covering many different technologies and all academic disciplines.
• We provide Software Carpentry Training in good software engineering practice, for postgraduate students and researchers at any career stage.
• We organise regular Research Software Community events for researchers who develop software.

Please mail rsg-info@soton.ac.uk for more information.

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Before the workshop

Before attending the workshop you need to install some useful and free software. For more information, see the software prerequisites.

Please also fill in the Pre-workshop Survey.

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Schedule

The workshop schedule can be found at the schedule page.

The workshop is split over 2 days. Days 1 and 2 for each cohort are:

• Cohort 1: Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd May
• Cohort 2: Friday 22nd & Tuesday 26th May
• Cohort 3: Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th May

During the Workshop

We will attempt to fix any technical issues people encounter during the workshop. If you encounter an issue, please copy the error message you encounter and send it as a direct message to the presenter.

Some problems may be too complicated to solve during the online event. If that's the case, we will attempt to resolve the issue after the workshop. All training materials are available online through the schedule, so if this does occur you will be able to work through them after the workshop.

Register an interest in our course for possible future dates

If you're interested in our training, but can't make the date, you can sign up to be notified about future events.