Software Carpentry workshops

Course Description

Software Carpentry is a four half-day hands-on workshop, which focuses on helping researchers develop foundational computational skills to get started with programming. In this workshop, you also get introduced to best practices for working with code in a reproducible way.

A software carpentry workshop is your first step in learning computational and digital skills, which you will be able to use and apply in academic and non-academic settings in your future.

Training takes place Monday 28 April till Thursday 1 May 2025  - in person (at TU Delft Library - Orange Room) – 12:30 - 17:00 hrs each day

Target Audience

This workshop is useful for all PhD candidates and researchers with very little or no previous programming experience and would like to start learning digital and programming skills. The software carpentry workshops are the perfect space to overcome the initial barriers when learning programming skills. It is useful for those researchers interested in getting an overview and an introduction to relevant tools to start working with code and provide the necessary elements to follow more advanced courses.

Prerequisites

This workshop is useful for all PhD candidates and researchers with very little to no prior computational experience who are working with tabular data. This is a basic/introductory course.

You will need to allocate approximately 2  hours of preparatory work before the first class of the workshop in order to:

• fill in a pre-workshop survey to help the instructor to get an overview of the learners previous experience with programming and adjust content and pace accordingly (you will receive an email with the link to the survey).
• install the software and download the datasets that you will use during the workshop (you will receive an email with the detailed instructions before the workshop).