Sitting at the cottage with my ereader, and I recall I have an early draft of #TeachingTechTogether by @gvwilson on it. Purchased the final/latest release and dove in.

Such an amazing, inspiring resource! Maybe even better than the #SoftwareCarpentry lessons it grew out of. Making me scheme about how to do more teaching when I get back to the lab later this month.

Protip: you can read it for free online, but if you want the 'published' epub, you can get it direct from Kobo. You don't need to suffer the terrible VitalSource format offered by the publisher.

https://teachtogether.tech/

new blog post about our first #SoftwareCarpentry at the Charité Universität Medizin, #Berlin. It was great fun. So good to be able run an in-person workshop after two years of online workshops during the pandemic. Plenty of ideas for the next session.

@thecarpentries

https://magi.marsupium.org/2023/06/software-carpentry-charite.html

So, Trevor Price & I started building the #SoftwareCarpentry Windows Installer. It started out as a Python script. You had to get Python working and then you ran this script and it took care of some of the additional complexities. This is as close as I can get to the original script:

https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/commit/95f7b2e732454bd44a7004bd99d731dfe2ff3e95

We kept adding more fixes (& fixing things that broke; which happened a lot) & eventually packaged it all as a proper Windows installer to make things easier for students.

Wow, the removal of @thecarpentries windows-maintainers team really takes me back.

When #SoftwareCarpentry started teaching workshops in ~2012 installation for Windows users was a nightmare. We would often spend the first 1+ hours of a workshop desperately scrambling to fix bash/Python install issues on Windows.

So, a tiny group of us starting trying to make that experience better. 🧵

Day 1 of the #softwarecarpentry lesson on “Intermediate Research Software Development”course is underway at U of Manchester - after some useful time setting up and introducing ourselves! Thanks Doug for your hard work so far

There's still space in online novice #python workshops based on #SoftwareCarpentry from @thecarpentries, Tuesdays 3/14 and 3/21 from 1-3 EST through #VirginiaTech libraries! They're free and open to anyone. Register at https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/10277685 and https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/10277707

The Carpentries are looking for more Maintainers, who look after the lesson materials that are used in #SoftwareCarpentry, #DataCarpentry and #LibraryCarpentry workshops. I can tell from experience that it is rewarding. Join our community by signing up for Maintainer Onboarding:
https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/02/Apply-for-the-current-round-of-Carpentries-Maintainer-Onboarding/

It's a little intimidating to come off holiday and immediately teach multi-day workshops but I always look forward to our @thecarpentries #softwareCarpentry workshops at #VirginiaTech because I love seeing people discover they can code or use version control, even if they've never done anything like it in the past! Currently in the middle of the second of two workshops for January.

Whilst looking into setting up a #SoftwareCarpentry workshop at work I cam across this really thought provoking pre-alpha lesson on responsible #MachineLearning. Something I'd like to explore some more.

https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/machine-learning-responsible-python/

Last call for participants in two-day Zoom #softwareCarpentry #computing workshops 1/5-6 (#Bash/#Git/#rstats) or 1/9-10 (#Bash/#Git/#python) from 9-5 US Eastern Time. Open to all; no experience necessary.

Free registration through #VirginiaTech #libraries at https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/calendar/events.

We're down to 1 seat in the Python workshop and a handful in the R one.

Many #Carpentries instructor training opportunities this fall

https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/training_calendar/index.html

If you are in the #Nordics / #Estonia see also

https://fluid.quest/the-carpentries-instructor-training.html

#SoftwareCarpentry #DataCarpentry #LibraryCarpentry

If you don't feel like you are able to code/comment/create scripts?

#softwarecarpentry & #datacarpentry workshops are made for you!

https://software-carpentry.org/
http://www.datacarpentry.org/

#OSIP2017

"Good enough practices in scientific computing" by Greg Wilson & Co.

published in PLoS Computational Biology:

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510

#SoftwareCarpentry
#ScientificComputing