March 20, 2025
9:30 am - 5:00 pm UTC
Instructors: Colin Sauze, Tobias Ferreira
Helpers: Esther Turner, TBC
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About this workshop: This Software Carpentry course is an intermediate course covering the Unix shell, particularly focusing on features that are useful to researchers. Learners are assumed to have basic skills in the Unix shell as this course is designed to be a follow on from the Software Carpentry’s Introduction to the Unix Shell course. Please see the course notes for further information or get in touch with us.
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: Library Red Room, National Oceanography Centre, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. What3Words location: ///super.neon.light.
When: March 20, 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.
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.
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.