Feb 20-21, 2025
9:30 am - 5:00 pm UTC
Instructors: Colin Sauze, Tobias Ferreira
Helpers: Esther Turner, Alex Baldwin, Adam Ward
About this workshop: This Software Carpentry course is an introductory course covering Programming in Python and using Conda for package and environment management. Learners are not expected to have any prior knowledge of these topics. Some basic Unix knowledge is assumed (how to make and change directories). You can find links to the course notes for these topics below:
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: Room to be confirmed, National Oceanography Centre, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. What3Words location: ///super.neon.light.
When: Feb 20-21, 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.
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: 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.
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.
| Before | Pre-workshop survey |
| 09:30 | Building Programs with Python |
| 11:00 | Morning break |
| 11:20 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 15:30 | Afternoon break |
| 15:50 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 17:00 | END |
| 09:30 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 11:00 | Morning Break |
| 11:20 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Using Conda |
| 15:30 | Afternoon break |
| 15:50 | Using Conda (continued) |
| 16:50 | Post-workshop Survey |
| 17:00 | END |