[Chtc-users] Announcing Software Carpentry Boot Camp at UW-Madison, Aug 28-29 - Registration open now!

[Lauren Michael <lmichael@xxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

We'd like to announce the second Software Carpentry Boot Camp at UW-Madison, hosted by the newly-formed Advanced Computing Infrastructure (ACI). Please forward the below announcement to any individuals who might be interested in attending. Registration opened yesterday, July 22.

Best Wishes,

Lauren Michael

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Lauren A. Michael

Research Computing Facilitator

Advanced Computing Infrastructure,

Center for High Throughput Computing, and

Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - Core Computational Technology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

330 N Orchard St

Madison, WI 53715

(608)316-4430

lmichael@xxxxxxxx

UW-Madison Research Computing Bootcamp: Aug 28-29

Where: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 3rd Floor Teaching Lab

When: August 28-29, 2013. We will start at 8:30 and end at 4:30 each day.

Instructors: TBD.

What: Our goal is to help UW-Madison researchers using computing in their work to become more productive by teaching basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing, and task automation. In this two-day boot camp, short tutorials will alternate with hands-on practical exercises. Participants will be encouraged both to help one another, and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. There will be online follow-up sessions for 6 to 8 weeks extending the material from the boot camp.

Who: The course is aimed at UW-Madison graduate students, post-docs, staff, and faculty who have basic familiarity with programming concepts (like loops, conditionals, arrays, and functions), but need help translating this knowledge into practical tools to help them work more productively.

Content: The syllabus for this boot camp will include:

• using the shell to do more in less time
• using version control to manage and share information
• workflow automation and scripting (with Python as example)
• how (and how much) to test programs
• documentation and debugging

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed. More information to come. Please visit the boot camp curriculum/setup page for installation instructions. Note: we'll be relying on the Union South wireless network.

Contact: Please see our page on the Software Carpentry website for registration and further details (http://software-carpentry.org/bootcamps/2013-04-wisc.html).