The software carpentry course materials were updated and released in 200405 under a creative commons license thanks to support from the python software foundation8. They attracted 2000 unique visitors a month, with occasional spikes correlated to courses and mentions in other sites, and were used in a semesterlong graduate course offered in 2007. The software carpentry materials were updated and released under a creative commons license in 200405 thanks to support from the python software foundation. This talk explains what we have learned along the way the challenges we now face, and our plans for the future.
Recently, the association for computing machinerys acms special interest group on software engineering sigsoft recognized greg wilson as the 2020 recipient of its prestigious influential educator award which is awarded annually to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions to software engineering through education, mentoring or policy. Greg wilson ebooks born and raised on vancouver island. Greg wilson wins acm influential educator award rbloggers. Based on the design which won the software carpentry build tool competition, scons solves a number of problems associated with other build tools, especially including the classic and ubiquitous make itself. Diana clarke who as conference chair did an incredible job, greg wilson from software carpentry with whom i had a chance to interact a lot he already has a long list of ideas for the ipython notebook in teaching contexts were. Why programming is hard to teach top 10 myths about teaching computer science. We look forward to a very exciting conference and hope to see you at the 2014 conference. Founded in 1998, our volunteer instructors now run over a hundred twoday workshops every year in a dozen different countries for thousands of learners. Greg wilson programmer, author, and teacher, currently working on software carpentry, never work in theory, and the architecture of open source applications. Kim pham, leanne trimble, greg wilson, nich worby, thomas guignard helpers. Over the next year, he recorded 120 short video lessons and ran half a dozen weeklong classes for his backers. Authors a list of contributors to the lesson can be found in authors. Greg wilson this talk will explain how software carpentry has grown to run over a hundred training events a year, what weve learned along the way, and how you can do it too. After leaving hp in 2004 i put the software carpentry course online and wrote.
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Scientific computing with python austin, texas july 612 registration 100% full. In addition of the posts below, find out whats happening in our community through the carpentries blog, a great resource that collates posts from data carpentry, library carpentry, and software carpentry, and publishes updates of general interest to the community. The term software carpentry was coined in 1998 by greg wilson and brent gorda. Formal introduction to greg wilson of software carpentry. Many takehome messages and instructor techniques applicable to other areas of teaching which is useful as a supplement to my current application to be a fellow of the higher education academy. The carpentries and our partnership software sustainability institute. Software carpentry s mission is to make scientists and engineers more productive by teaching them basic computing skills. He is best known as the cofounder of software carpentry, a nonprofit organization that teaches basic computing skills to researchers. Greg wilson has worked for 30 years in both industry and academia, and is the. Software carpentrys mission is to help researchers become more productive by teaching them basic lab skills for computing like program design, version control, data management, and task automation. A script is a set of commands organized into a single file. Enter software carpentry most of the build tools just mentioned were written by programmers and for programmers. Sofware carpentry started out as a course at the university of toronto taught by greg wilson.
Over the last 15 years, software carpentry has evolved from a weeklong training course at the us national laboratories into a worldwide volunteer effort to raise standards in scientific computing. Describes gregs journey as a scientist and leader for the software carpentry project, provides some insight into the differences between industry and academics. 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. Unix, git, python, regular expressions, r, latex and sqlite table of contents v use free software on linux, mac os x or windows. Extra material for software carpentry shell lesson. Software carpentrys mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This was possible through the online component of the training programme, called software carpentry, that greg has been building, delivering and developing. In 199596, greg wilson organized a series of articles in ieee computational. Oct 22, 2014 formal introduction to greg wilson of software carpentry content of the workshop was multi disciplinary. The annual scipy conference allows participants from academic, commercial, and governmental organizations to showcase their latest scientific python projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code development. Greg wilson, cofounder of the software carpentry, gives us some insight on this inititative for teaching research computing software carpentry is an initiative that has already been mentioned in various open science radio episodes. Hpcwire recently had the opportunity to talk with greg wilson, author of the book data crunching.
The current the carpentries project was formed in january 2018 when two projects, software carpentry and data carpentry, formally merged. Linda timberlake, chang liu, and patrick campbellpreston all submitted designs containing valuable ideas. Git lesson using worksheetspariksheet nanda 20180526. Software carpentry scientific python course part 1 beginner room 101 matthias bussonnier, jupyteripython, university of california, berkeley matt davis jessica hamrick, university of california, berkeley ted hart kathryn huff, fellow, university of california, berkeley greg wilson, software carpentry. The software carpentry course materials were updated and released in 200405 under a creative commons license with support from the python software foundation 11.
This audience often spends a lot of time developing, debugging and maintaining programs, but doesnt have the computer science background to do. He is best known as the cofounder of software carpentry, a nonprofit. Author of data crunching, coauthor of practical programming a cs1 textbook using python, coeditor of beautiful code winner of a 2008 jolt award, and currently working on books on empirical software engineering for oreilly and the architecture of open source applications for pragmatic. The script is the basest unit of scientific programming, you should be comfortable writing these whenever you want to save or otherwise document or repeat your actions. The term software carpentry was coined in 1998 by greg wilson and brent gorda to stress the accessibility of the courses and differentiate the training from full software engineering. He has worked for 25 years in highperformance computing, data visualization, computer security, and academia, and is the author or editor of several books on computing including the 2008 jolt award winner beautiful code and two for children. Software carpentry introduction to python for novices using inflammation data. Greg wilson has worked for 30 years in both industry and academia, and is the author or editor of several books on computing and two for children. I just got back a few days ago from the 2012 edition of pycon canada, which was a great success. Software carpentry s mission is to help researchers become more productive by teaching them basic lab skills for computing like program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Software carpentrys mission is to make scientists and engineers more productive by teaching them basic computing skills. Describes greg s journey as a scientist and leader for the software carpentry project, provides some insight into the differences between industry and academics. The fact that most programmerfriendly utilities do a poor job of fulfilling the needs of nonprogrammers prompted greg wilson to organize the software carpentry competition in january 2000.
Greg wilson abstract over the last 15 years, software carpentry has evolved from a weeklong training course at the us national laboratories into a worldwide volunteer effort to raise standards in. I wanted to thank the team who invited me for a fantastic experience. Nancy fong, leslie barnes, bella ban, sean zhao, stephanie pegg, andy wagner introducing library carpentry, a software carpentry based workshop series aimed at librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and other information professionals. This handson workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, and task automation. The proposed portion of the work was completed in october 2006 and the course is still actively being improved and expanded.
Scons is a software construction tool build tool, or make tool implemented in python, which uses python scripts as configuration files for software builds. I also became involved in open source development, particularly python. Osr038 software carpentry with greg wilson en open. A quick introduction to version control with git and github. Wilson, 2018, who focus on creating a motivating and engaging en. Greg wilson this talk will explain how software carpentry has grown to run over a hundred training events a year, what weve. Python does not assume default values for variables doing so can mask many errors print plant nameerror. This twoday handson bootcamp will cover basic concepts and tools. They were used twice in a conventional termlong graduate course at the university of toronto aimed at a mix of students from computer science and the physical and life sciences. Thoughts on programming, writing, teaching, and more. Everything i know about software design i learned from. The carpentries and our partnership software sustainability. Greg wilson was supported by a grant from the sloan foundation.
Affiliation software carpentry foundation, austin, texas, united states of america. Automate common actions by saving simple blocks of code into scripts. Currently funded by the sloan foundation and the mozilla foundation. Lesson maintainers are trevor bekolay, maxim belkin, anne fouilloux, lauren ko, valentina staneva, and creator of software carpentry. This audience often spends a lot of time developing, debugging and maintaining programs, but doesnt have the computer science background. Traveled while writing my first book on parallel programming. Greg wilson cofounder of software carpentry this textbook helps advanced undergraduates and graduate students gain familiarity with computational skills that will allow them to do really useful research. Aug 04, 2006 hpcwire recently had the opportunity to talk with greg wilson, author of the book data crunching. Programmer, author, and teacher, currently working on software carpentry, never work in theory, and the architecture of open source applications.
Thats the topic of a great paper by greg wilson, software carpentry. Greg has worked over the past 25 years in highperformance scientific computing, data visualization, and computer security, and is the author or editor of several computing books including the 2008 jolt award winner beautiful code and two books for children. They have minimal requirements in terms of hardware, and work on any platform. Greg wilson, jennifer bryan, karen cranston, justin kitzes, lex nederbragt, tracy k.
In this interview, he describes his software carpentry course, a primer for scientists and engineers who are not professional software developers. Founded by greg wilson in 1998, teaching scientists how to use supercomputers at lanl. Greg works at mozilla and has been working on this for 15 years. Greg wilson left the university of toronto in april 2010 to reboot software carpentry with support from nine sponsor organizations. Almost everyone uses a variablelength encoding called utf8 instead first 128 characters old ascii stored in 1 byte each next 1920 stored in 2 bytes, etc. John reynders, rod oldehoeft and greg wilson organized the software carpentry project. Software carpentry s mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. Software carpentry instructor training room 108 ariel rokem, software carpentry greg wilson, software carpentry tutorial materials including an outline can be viewed here also, please read the following articles before the start of the tutorial.
Many takehome messages and instructor techniques applicable to other areas. Software carpentry overview by software carpentry is licensed under a creative commons attribution 3. Software engineering education i was surprised and honored to be given acm sigsofts influential educator award for 2020, though i was a bit surprised by the influential part. Greg wilson is the creator of software carpentry, a crash course in computing skills for scientists and engineers.
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