University of Edinburgh on The Carpentries

Software Carpentry Returns to Edinburgh

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last week, EPCC's ARCHER training team ran another Software Carpentry workshop here in Edinburgh, on 3rd and 4th of December. The workshop provided attendees with an introduction to version control and Git, building programs with Python, automating tasks with Make, and how (and how much) to test programs. These were set within the context of best practices for scientific computing.

Feedback from Edinburgh

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On the 3rd of December, Software Carpentry returned to Edinburgh with EPCC hosting a bootcamp as part of its involvement in both the PRACE Advanced Training Centre and The Software Sustainability Institute.

Feedback from Edinburgh

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

This week saw the first bootcamp to be held at The University of Edinburgh. The bootcamp was organised by the The Software Sustainability Institute and EPCC as part of the PRACE Advanced Training Centre. We had 36 researchers from geosciences, astronomy, biology, statistics, chemistry and mathematics and based at 8 institutions across the UK. Azalee and myself led the workshop and we had 7 helpers including Nancy Giang of the University of Dundee who we recruited after she attended the Newcastle bootcamp back in October, and David Jones of the Climate Code Foundation. We also had as helper/observers Mike Mineter of The University of Edinburgh and Norman Gray of The University of Glasgow also came along to help and to see what a bootcamp is like, with a view to running bootcamps for the physics and geosciences communities.