Workshop Summary: Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto

Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last week we ran a Python-based SWC workshop at the University of Toronto's Gerstein Science Information Centre. The advertised audience was graduate students, post-docs and other researchers in science, engineering and medicine at the University of Toronto.

The workshop had about 20 learners. Most were grad students or postdocs in life sciences. The pre-workshop assessment said that about three-quarters of learners had some programming experience with about half of those having some Python; maybe half of the total had some familiarity with the command line. Almost none had experience with version control or SQL. The instructors were Pauline Barmby, Greg Wilson, and Thomas Guignard; helpers were Sahar Rahmani, Luke Johnston, Daiva Nielsen, Tom Wright, and Fei Xu. Our host was Erica Lenton.

Pauline Barmby on The Carpentries

Workshop Summary: Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto