Software Carpentry

Sofware Carpentry started out as a course at the University of Toronto taught by Greg Wilson. He has since left the university and turned this into a major effort to help researchers be more productive by teaching them basic computing skills.

Their “boot camps” are taught at many universities and other insitutions around the world, check the calendar to see if one is coming up near you.

Some sections particularly relevant to this course, with links to videos:

• The Shell
• Version Control (using Subversion – svn)
• Testing
• Python
• Systems Programming (from Python)
• Classes and Objects (object oriented programming)
• Make
• Matrix programming (linear algebra, NumPy)
• Regular expressions