PyCon on The Carpentries

A Workshop for Librarians at PyCon

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are very pleased to announce that we will be running a two-day workshop on programming skills for librarians during the PyCon sprints in Montreal on April 14 and 15, 2014. The workshop will introduce participants to core skills for managing and manipulating data, including task automation, version control, modular programming, and databases. The event is open to everyone, not just to PyCon attendees; please see this page for more information, register here, mail us if you have any questions, and help spread the word to your friends and colleagues.

Learn How to Teach People to Program

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are very pleased to announce that we will be running two one-day workshops on how to teach programming during the PyCon sprints in Montreal on April 14 and 15, 2014. The workshops will be led by Greg Wilson, who will show participants how to use basic concepts from educational psychology and instructional design when teaching beginners how to code. The event is open to everyone, not just to PyCon attendees; please register here, or mail us if you have any questions.

Our Biggest Event Ever

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

If you have friends or colleagues in or near Montreal, please let them know that we're running our largest bootcamp ever on April 14-15 in conjunction with PyCon 2014. Material will include our usual topics:

the Unix shell (and how to automate repetitive tasks);
Git and GitHub (and how to use version control to track and share work);
Python or R (and how to grow a program in a structured, testable, reusable way); and
databases (and the difference between structured and unstructured data).

but we'll split people between several rooms based on how much they already know so that each group can move at its own pace.

Register now!

Workshops at PyCon in Montreal This April

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our largest event ever: on April 14-15, 2014, in association with PyCon 2014 in Montreal, we will run three Software Carpentry workshops in parallel, along with a master class in next-generation sequencing for bioinformaticians and an introduction to R for Python programmers. (Note that these workshops are during the two days after PyCon, so you can attend both.)