[Plantsci] FW: Software Carpentry Workshop

[Caron, Joy E - (jerogers)]

On behalf of Dr. Eric Lyons:

Upcoming hands-on "Software Carpentry Workshop". This workshop is designed to introduce students, faculty and staff to best practices and pragmatic skills for scientific computing.

Software Carpentry Workshop
Please share with your colleagues, friends, department, and college!
What: Software Carpentry Workshop
Who: Practicing and aspiring research scientists
When: February 21 and 22, 2014 (9am - 5 pm on both days)
Where: T.W. Keating Bldg. (a.k.a. BIO5)
How: Register at http://naupaka.github.io/2015-02-21-iplant/

As computing skills are becoming increasingly important and essential for researchers, the Software Carpentry foundation  ( http://software-carpentry.org/) has been playing a major role in professional development in practical and technical computing. Since 1998 volunteers from Software Carpentry have been teaching researchers in science, engineering, medicine, and related disciplines the essential computing skills they need to get more done in less time, and with less pain.

Now, the UA’s BIO5 Institute, the iPlant Collaborative and the Arizona Environmental Grid Infrastructure Service (AEGIS) are proud to present a Software Carpentry Workshop on the UA campus.

The workshop targets graduate students, postdocs, technicians, and faculty; undergraduate students can be admitted if space is available. It covers the foundational skills necessary to be productive in a small research teams, including:
• Scripting your analyses with R (make your analyses reproducible and repeatable)
• Efficient us of the Unix shell (how to automate repetitive tasks)
• Git and GitHub (how to track and share work efficiently)
• How to use all of these skills in the context of iPlant’s powerful cloud computing infrastructure

Participation requires a $25.00 non-refundable fee that will cover all instruction, coffee breaks and lunches for the two workshop days.

Register ASAP as Software Carpentry workshops fill fast!
Want to know more? Visit http://software-carpentry.org/faq.html .For students unable to cover $25 registration assistance is available please contact Uwe Hilgert at hilgert at email.arizona.edu<mailto:hilgert at email.arizona.edu> with any questions you may have.


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