- The Center for Demography and Ecology
- The Department of Sociology
- The Sociology of Gender Brownbag (Femsem)
This repository contains the course material for the Software Carpentry workshop hosted by UW-Madison's Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) for researchers in the Social Sciences at the UW-Madison.
You will need to bring a laptop to all sessions of the workshop. It is strongly encouraged that participants already have a basic understanding of programming concepts, like loops, conditionals, and arrays. Before you arrive, please follow the instructions to install python and other software.
Please see our workshop advertisement page for registration.
This workshop has been structured around the concepts put forth in the recent paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing" by G. Wilson, et al (at the top of this repository). In so doing, the sessions names have been chosen to correspond with some of the most important practices to start early in the research process. Please note that this schedule is subject to minor changes by the start of the workshop.
| Time | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | Setup & Intro | All |
| 9:00-9:15 | If it's not reproducible, is it still science? | Karl |
| 9:15-10:45 | Introducing the Shell | Lauren |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Let the Computer Do the Work | Lauren |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:30 | Write Code for People I | Alex |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break | |
| 2:45-3:45 | Write Code for People II | Alex |
| 3:45-4:30 | Make Incremental Changes I | Steve |
| Time | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:45 | Don't Repeat Yourself (or Others) | Alex |
| 9:45-10:45 | Make Incremental Changes II | Christina |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Plan for Mistakes | Christina |
| 12:00- 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Make Changes from Anywhere (GitHub) | Steve |
| 2:00-2:30 | Work and Home (or Being Mobile) | Steve |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break | |
| 2:45-3:15 | Collaborate | Christina |
| 3:15-4:30 | Best Practices Summary and Discussion | All |
On the first day of our first boot camp (April 29, 2013), we were offered this XKCD Comic:
