Date/Time: Mon 22 February 2021, 09:15-13:00

Venue: Hosted via zoom

Monday 22 February 2021, 09:15-13:00 GMT

Registration now closed!

Hosted by CESI and led by Dr Jannetta Steyn of Newcastle University, these hands-on workshops will give you the opportunity to learn program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Teams are not the only ones to benefit from version control: lone researchers can benefit immensely. Keeping a record of what was changed, when, and why is extremely useful for all researchers if they ever need to come back to the project later on (e.g., a year later, when memory has faded).

Version control is the lab notebook of the digital world: it’s what professionals use to keep track of what they’ve done and to collaborate with other people. Every large software development project relies on it, and most programmers use it for their small jobs as well. And it isn’t just for software: books, papers, small data sets, and anything that changes over time or needs to be shared can and should be stored in a version control system. You need a basic understanding of the Unix Shell commands before attempting this workshop.

Sign up for further Software Carpentry workshops:

• Programming with Python - Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 February 2021

In advance of the workshops, you should make sure you have downloaded and installed the required software and data for the following:

• The Bash Shell
• Git
• Text Editor
• Python

More detailed information on the workshop, the system requirements and links to download these for Windows, MacOS and Linux are available here.