Stanford University on The Carpentries

Stanford Bootcamp Recap

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On May 6th-7th, we hosted a bootcamp at Stanford University. Participants were students, post-docs and staff affiliated with the Center for Neurobiological and Cognitive Imaging and the Neuroscience Graduate Program and both units provided support for the workshop. Bob Dougherty, the research director at the CNI, helped raise a substantial portion of the funds to support the bootcamp (coffee!) and Prof. Miriam Goodman, from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, helped to get the neuroscience program on board and to secure additional funding from that program. Prof. Goodman was a participant in a SWC bootcamp at Berkeley last year and was eager to get SWC to Stanford. Instructors were Paul Ivanov, Bernhard Konrad and myself.

Stanford Course Went Well

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Prof. Risa Wechsler, along with Alex Ji and Zahan Malkani, recently ran a short course at Stanford based in part on Software Carpentry called Physics 91S1: Practical Computing for Scientists. The course notes and handouts are available online, and the open source bits of code are on GitHub. We hope you find them useful...

Practical Computing for Scientists at Stanford

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Prof. Risa Wechsler writes from Stanford:

We are teaching a course at Stanford this term inspired by Software Carpentry. The course, "Practical Computing for Scientists", will be a Student Initiated Course, led by two physics undergrads (former summer research students with my group)—the course will be targeted at physics undergrads with a bit of programming experience to prepare them for summer research, but we expect participation from undergrads from other fields and some grad students and postdocs as well. I am hopeful that we will be able to keep this going as a regular student-led course with richer material as it develops. We expect that we will use some of your materials as well as some materials developed here.