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Purdue Discovery Park Cyber Center Lecture Series

Software Carpentry: Essential Software Skills for Research Scientists

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University of Toronto
Abstract

Many scientists and engineers spend much of their lives writing, debugging, and maintaining software, but only a handful have ever been taught how to do this effectively: after a couple of introductory courses, they are left to rediscover (or reinvent) the rest of programming on their own. As a result, most spend far too much time wrestling with software, instead of doing research, but have no idea how reliable or efficient their programs are.

This talk describes an intensive course on basic software development practices for scientists and engineers. Its aim is not to turn biochemists and mechanical engineers into computer scientists; instead, it introduces them to the 10% of modern software engineering that will satisfy 90% of their needs. The course has been taught at laboratories and universities in Canada and the United States since 1998. All of the course material is freely available under an open license.

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image Greg Wilson graduated from Mathematics & Engineering at Queen's in 1984, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1995. He has worked in both academia and industry on high-performance scientific computing, data visualization, and computer security. His most recent book is "Data Crunching" (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005), and he is now developing a course on basic software development skills for scientists and engineers. Greg is a freelance consultant, a contributing editor with "Doctor Dobb's Journal", and an adjunct professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
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Date posted 25 Sep, 2006
Time 01:00 PM, September 06, 2006
Location Room 121, Burton Morgan
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    Posted on 12 November, 2007 by Joseph M. Cychosz

    This talk should be viewed at least once a year (if not each semister) by those doing software development.

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