And Now There Are Three

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

A new book has just been published that covers much of the same material as Software Carpentry, and a great deal more: Paarsch and Golyaev’s A Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research: What Every Research Assistant Should Know. It covers almost everything I would want to see in a one-semester course for new research students: the Unix shell, data organization, the basics of Python, data analysis, “geek stuff” (including hardware and algorithm analysis), numerical analysis, some worked examples, Python extensions, and preparing manuscripts with LaTeX.

Book Review on The Carpentries

And Now There Are Three