Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, has just opened the registration for the workshop ‘Software Writing Skills for Your Research – Workshop for Novices’ planned on September 23-25, 2015.
The workshop addresses the passing of software writing skills to young scientists, the next generation of researchers in the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The writing of code in science following minimal but vital software engineering rules, best practices and processes shall be imparted as fundamental skills. So the workshops addresses young scientist with no or little experience in writing software for their research work. The lessons will cover:
- The Unix Shell – Get used to the Bash and learn how to automate repetitive tasks
- Distributed revision / version control – Get used to Git and GitHub and learn how to track and share work efficiently
- Programming with Python – Get used to Python with first hands-on experiences
- Looking beyond the basics – Using databases, automation and Make
- Open Access, Open Data, and Open Science – Why bother in research
- Publishing scientific software – Release code as Open Source in the context of Open Science
There are no workshop fees, basic food supply included, travel and accommodation expenses are covered by workshop participants.
Prerequisites: None but the need of programming and developing software in your own work
The registration closes on August 23.
Please register at http://goo.gl/forms/KnQ7nRGTb1.
More information about the workshop is available at http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/?id=5023
For further information contact martin.hammitzsch@gfz-potsdam.de
