Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Focus for the training over the two days will be:

• Bash for Beginners - automating tasks using the command line - http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/
• Git for version control - making sure your code is backed up with managed change - http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/
• Data Analysis and Visualisation in Python: https://datacarpentry.org/python-ecology-lesson/

Location - Te Toki o Rata Building, Kelburn Campus

Room - TTR205

Date and Time - Thursday 27th and Friday 28th February - 8:30am - 5:00pm 

NOTE - This is a hands on workshop. A personal laptop will be required to participate in this workshop. Please tell us during registration if you require a loan laptop. 

Please visit the dedicated workshop website with detailed schedule and installation instructions: https://vuw-research-computing.github.io/2020-02-27-vuw/.

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