This week I taught my first Software Carpentry workshop at Oklahoma State University. The workshop had been in such demand that we had a total of four instructors, including Jonah Duckles, Kate Hertweck, Thomas Guignard, and myself. I arrived at the hotel close to 2am the first day of the …

In two weeks from today I’ll be in Stillwater, Oklahoma, teaching at my first Software Carpentry workshop. The topics will include learning the basics of a Unix shell, programming in python, version control and collaboration with git, and data management with SQL. Of these, perhaps SQL is my weakest …

Back in January I had the privilege to attend an in-person Software Carpentry instructor training in Davis, CA, hosted by Titus Brown. Software Carpentry is a non-profit volunteer organization that puts on “bootcamps” at institutions all over the world teaching best practices for building software to do science efficiently. The …