Jan 15-17, 2025
9:30 am - 5:00 pm UTC
Instructors: Colin Sauze, Tobias Ferreira
Helpers: Esther Turner, Alex Baldwin, Adam Ward
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About this workshop: This course is intended for people who have developed basic skills in Python programming. You are expected to have practised these over at least a few months and now want to move to the next step in software development. This course teaches some intermediate software engineering skills and best practices to help you restructure existing code and design more robust, reusable and maintainable code, automate the process of testing and verifying software correctness and support collaborations across teams.
Course Notes: The course notes can be found on the lesson homepage.
Who can attend?: This workshop is open to all staff and students from the National Oceanography Centre. Limited numbers are available for other organisations who collaborate with the National Oceanography Centre.
Where: Seminar Room, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. What3Words location: ///super.neon.light.
When: Jan 15-17, 2025; 9:30 am - 5:00 pm UTC Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop which can connect to the Eduroam or NOCstaff wifi. All attendees will receive an account on the NOC Data Science Platform where all required software will be pre-installed. Anybody wishing to install the software on their laptop should follow the setup instructions below.
Contact: Please email colin.sauze@noc.ac.uk or esther.turner@noc.ac.uk for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
About The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody.
We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request an accommodation for this workshop, please fill out the accommodation request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accommodation form please email us.
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
This workshop is teaching a lesson in The Carpentries Incubator. Please check the lesson homepage for a list of lesson sections and estimated timings.
To participate in a workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
Please check the “Setup” page of the lesson homepage for instructions to follow to obtain the software and data you will need to follow the lesson.