Reporting on a Commercial Workshop

Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On August 22, Marty McGuire (@schmarty) and I (@joshua_r_smith) taught a for-profit workshop based on Software Carpentry materials, particularly the novice Python lesson. This post is a debrief of that workshop.

How Software Carpentry Helped Me Write a Paper

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

A paper I wrote titled Increasing the Efficiency of a Thermionic Engine Using a Negative Electron Affinity Collector was recently published in the Journal of Applied Physics. I found that applying some of the best practices advocated by the Software Carpentry project eliminated much of the drudgery and tedium which leads to manually induced error in developing the software and composing the manuscript. As a result, I was able to focus more on the scientific problems instead of on tedious bookkeeping-type issues.

Joshua Ryan Smith on The Carpentries

Reporting on a Commercial Workshop

How Software Carpentry Helped Me Write a Paper