.. _software_carpentry:

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Software Carpentry
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`Sofware Carpentry <http://software-carpentry.org>`_
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
<http://software-carpentry.org/bootcamps/index.html#calendar>`_ to see if
one is coming up near you.

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

* `The Shell <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/shell/>`_
* `Version Control <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/vc/>`_ 
  (using Subversion -- svn)
* `Testing <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/test/>`_
* `Python <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/python/>`_
* `Systems Programming <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/sysprog/>`_ 
  (from Python)
* `Classes and Objects <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/oop/>`_
  (object oriented programming)
* `Make <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/make/>`_
* `Matrix programming <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/matrix/>`_ (linear
  algebra, NumPy)
* `Regular expressions <http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/regexp/>`_