#softwarecarpentry — Public Fediverse posts

On the topic of bug-fixing: "It took 15 years for anyone to notice errors in the ubiquitous BLOSUM62 amino acid substitution matrix used for protein sequence alignment". Even weirder, this bug makes the results better. https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0308-274 #softwarecarpentry #bugs #bioinformatics

📢 Today we relaunched The Carpentries’ main website and its Lesson Programs websites! 🎉

Updates to the sites have been in process for some time, and we are pleased to finally share the outcomes of all that work with you. We invite any feedback you may have as we continue to improve these websites.

Find out about the changes we made, and explore the new websites linked in this relaunch announcement: https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/11/the-carpentries-websites-relaunched/

#Carpentries #SoftwareCarpentry #DataCarpentry #LibraryCarpentry

Yesterday we announced that as part of our ongoing journey towards consolidating our resources and three lesson programs (Data Carpentry, Software Carpentry, and Library Carpentry) under one, unified, identity as The Carpentries, most of the content on the three lesson programs' websites will now be accessed from the main Carpentries website.

For the full announcement, visit: https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/07/lesson-programs-websites-content-pared-down/

#Carpentries #DataCarpentry #SoftwareCarpentry #LibraryCarpentry

Day 1 of the *first* in-person #softwarecarpentry workshop in Japanese is in the books! It was a huge success thanks to other helpers and instructors! (not to mention the participants who kept at it through many tricky shell and git commands!) 🙇

Looking forward to Day 2!

*始めて*の対面・日本語ソフトウェアカーペントリーワークショップの1日目が無事に終わりました！他のヘルパーとインストラクターのおかげさまで大成功でした。(もちろん、難しいシェルやgitコマンドに負けないで最後まで頑張った参加者も！)🙇

二日目が楽しみです！

:linux: :git: :docker: 🔨

Sitting at the cottage with my ereader, and I recall I have an early draft of #TeachingTechTogether by @gvwilson on it. Purchased the final/latest release and dove in.

Such an amazing, inspiring resource! Maybe even better than the #SoftwareCarpentry lessons it grew out of. Making me scheme about how to do more teaching when I get back to the lab later this month.

Protip: you can read it for free online, but if you want the 'published' epub, you can get it direct from Kobo. You don't need to suffer the terrible VitalSource format offered by the publisher.

https://teachtogether.tech/

Hi friends, I'm looking to put together a list of recommended tutorial to get new students going with a) the Unix or Linux command line; b) Python (with Jupyter Notebooks); c) shell scripting with bash; d) other command line productivity tools (top 10 most useful?). I have a few links such as http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/, which is good, but doesn't go far enough, or the #softwarecarpentry curriculum.

Anything you like particularly? Online best, videos great, books ok. #python #scipy

So, Trevor Price & I started building the #SoftwareCarpentry Windows Installer. It started out as a Python script. You had to get Python working and then you ran this script and it took care of some of the additional complexities. This is as close as I can get to the original script:

https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/commit/95f7b2e732454bd44a7004bd99d731dfe2ff3e95

We kept adding more fixes (& fixing things that broke; which happened a lot) & eventually packaged it all as a proper Windows installer to make things easier for students.

Wow, the removal of @thecarpentries windows-maintainers team really takes me back.

When #SoftwareCarpentry started teaching workshops in ~2012 installation for Windows users was a nightmare. We would often spend the first 1+ hours of a workshop desperately scrambling to fix bash/Python install issues on Windows.

So, a tiny group of us starting trying to make that experience better. 🧵

There's still space in online novice #python workshops based on #SoftwareCarpentry from @thecarpentries, Tuesdays 3/14 and 3/21 from 1-3 EST through #VirginiaTech libraries! They're free and open to anyone. Register at https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/10277685 and https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/10277707

The Carpentries are looking for more Maintainers, who look after the lesson materials that are used in #SoftwareCarpentry, #DataCarpentry and #LibraryCarpentry workshops. I can tell from experience that it is rewarding. Join our community by signing up for Maintainer Onboarding:
https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/02/Apply-for-the-current-round-of-Carpentries-Maintainer-Onboarding/

It's a little intimidating to come off holiday and immediately teach multi-day workshops but I always look forward to our @thecarpentries #softwareCarpentry workshops at #VirginiaTech because I love seeing people discover they can code or use version control, even if they've never done anything like it in the past! Currently in the middle of the second of two workshops for January.

Last call for participants in two-day online Zoom #softwareCarpentry #computing workshops 1/5-6 (#Bash/#Git/#rstats) or 1/9-10 (#Bash/#Git/#python) from 9-5 US Eastern Time. Open to all; no experience necessary.

Free registration through #VirginiaTech #libraries at https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/calendar/events.

We're down to 1 seat in the Python workshop and a handful in the R one.

Many #Carpentries instructor training opportunities this fall

https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/training_calendar/index.html

If you are in the #Nordics / #Estonia see also

https://fluid.quest/the-carpentries-instructor-training.html

#SoftwareCarpentry #DataCarpentry #LibraryCarpentry

Hi, I'm pursuing a Phd (CS, Software Engineering) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I'm also a #ResearchSoftwareEngineer (RSE) in linguistics.

💻 My research is on #SoftwareEngineering, #ResearchSoftwareSustainability and #SoftwareCitation.

I also teach computational basics to researchers (#SoftwareCarpentry), promote RSE (#deRSE) and am a Special Collaborator of the #SoftwareSustainabilityInstitute (SSI).

I'm based in Berlin, Germany.

#introductions

Today and tomorrow, I will try to become a trainer in software carpentry and data carpentry. Maybe that will make my attempts to teach Git more successful. I am also hoping for some synergy with the #cryptoparty movement.

https://bio-it.embl.de/events/carpentries-instructor-training/
#SoftwareCarpentry #DataCarpentry

Today and tomorrow, I will try to become a trainer in software carpentry and data carpentry. Maybe that will make my attempts to teach Git more successful. I am also hoping for some synergy with the #cryptoparty movement.

https://bio-it.embl.de/events/carpentries-instructor-training/

#SoftwareCarpentry #DataCarpentry