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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 basic computing concepts and tools including program design, plotting, functions, loops and conditionals. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

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

Who: The course is aimed at all academic levels from undergraduate to senior faculty. No prior programming experience is expected or required. We will create a supportive environment in which instructors and helpers assist with programming exercises and participants help one another. For this reason on-site (rather than remote) participation is required.

Where: 10 Discovery Drive, Farmington, Connecticut. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

We'll be in rooms 1405 and 1410 located across the hall from the B400 1425 Auditorium.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (listed below). If you are using a lab-owned machine please have these installed by IT before the course. IT can install required software quickly and easily, but your instructors will not be able to do so. Participants are also required to abide by Software Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please mail susan.mcclatchy@jax.org for more information.

Schedule

Data files: inflammation data.

Etherpad: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/2015-10-26-jackson.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

Syllabus

Setup

To participate in this Software Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser. If you are using a lab owned laptop please ask IT to install software for you before the workshop. Your instructors don't have administrative rights to your computer and can't install software for you.