April 11-12, 2019
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Instructors: Jon Jablonski, Ian Lessing, Greg Janee, Sharon Solis, Mary Donovan, Yuan Wu
Helpers: Noah Spahn, Kristi Liu
Registration: Please make sure that you can commit to the full two days of learning. To learn about future Carpentry workshops and to be added to our mailing list, visit our UCSB Carpentry Workshop page.
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including 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.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at faculty and researchers. You do not need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: University of California, Santa Barbara Library Classroom 1312 (Day 1) Classroom 1575 (Day 2), Santa Barbara, CA 93106. Get directions with OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, or the UCSB Map.
When: April 11-12, 2019. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Software Carpentry's Code of Conduct.
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email collaboratory@library.ucsb.edu for more information.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| Before | Pre-workshop survey |
| 08:15 | Installation help. Please arrive early if you had problems installing all of the required software. |
| 08:30 | Coffee and light breakfast |
| 09:00 | Introductions |
| 09:15 | The Unix Shell |
| 09:20 | Navigating Files & Directions |
| 10:00 | Working with Files & Directions |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:05 | Pipes and Filters |
| 11:50 | Finding files |
| 12:25 | Lunch break(lunch will be provided) |
| 13:25 | Automated Version control |
| 13:35 | Setting up Git |
| 13:45 | Creating a Repository |
| 13:55 | Tracking Changes |
| 14:15 | Coffee |
| 14:45 | Exploring History |
| 15:10 | Ignoring Things |
| 15:15 | Remotes in Github |
| 15:45 | Collaborating |
| 16:10 | Conflicts |
| 16:20 | Open Science |
| 16:30 | END |
| 08:30 | Coffee and light breakfast |
| 09:00 | Introduction to R and Rstudio |
| 10:00 | Project Management with Rstudio |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:50 | Seeking Help |
| 11:00 | Data Structures |
| 11:40 | Data Frames |
| 12:10 | Lunch break(lunch will be provided) |
| 12:55 | Subsetting Data |
| 13:30 | ploting with ggplot2 |
| 14:30 | Vectorization |
| 14:40 | Coffee |
| 14:55 | Dataframe manipulating with dplyr |
| 15:55 | Dataframe manipulating with tidyr |
| 16:40 | Writing good software |
| 16:50 | Post-workshop Survey |
| 17:00 | END |
Etherpad: We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
add, commit, ...status, diff, ...clone, pull, push, ...To participate in a Software Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.