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carpentry: "swc"    # what kind of Carpentry (must be either "dc" or "swc")
venue: "ARCHER-SSI Software Carpentry @ London School of Economics and Political Science"        # brief name of host site without address (e.g., "Euphoric State University")
address: "Workspace 4, LSE LIFE, LSE Library: The British Library of Political and Economic Science, 10 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HD"      # full street address of workshop (e.g., "Room A, 123 Forth Street, Blimingen, Euphoria")
country: "UK"      # lowercase two-letter ISO country code such as "fr" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1)
language: "en"     # lowercase two-letter ISO language code such as "fr" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1)
latlng: "51.51469,-0.115698"       # decimal latitude and longitude of workshop venue (e.g., "41.7901128,-87.6007318" - use http://www.latlong.net/)
humandate: "Jun 18-19, 2018"    # human-readable dates for the workshop (e.g., "Feb 17-18, 2020")
humantime: "10:00 - 17:00"    # human-readable times for the workshop (e.g., "9:00 am - 4:30 pm")
startdate: 2018-06-18      # machine-readable start date for the workshop in YYYY-MM-DD format like 2015-01-01
enddate: 2018-06-19        # machine-readable end date for the workshop in YYYY-MM-DD format like 2015-01-02
instructor: ["Manos Farsarakis", "Adrian Jackson"] # boxed, comma-separated list of instructors' names as strings, like ["Kay McNulty", "Betty Jennings", "Betty Snyder"]
helper: ["Katerina Michalickova","Jim Tyson","Simon Strickson","Nedelin Velikov","Raquel Alegre"]     # boxed, comma-separated list of helpers' names, like ["Marlyn Wescoff", "Fran Bilas", "Ruth Lichterman"]
contact: ["support@archer.ac.uk"]    # boxed, comma-separated list of contact email addresses for the host, lead instructor, or whoever else is handling questions, like ["marlyn.wescoff@example.org", "fran.bilas@example.org", "ruth.lichterman@example.org"]
etherpad: pad.software-carpentry.org/2018-06-18-LSE         # optional: URL for the workshop Etherpad if there is one
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<h2 id="general">General Information</h2>

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<p>
  <a href="{{site.swc_site}}">Software Carpentry</a>
  aims to help researchers get their work done
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  by teaching them basic research computing skills.
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<p>
  This workshop is hosted by EPCC, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, and organised in collaboration by ARCHER, the Software Sustainability Institute, and UoE Research Data Service.
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<p>
  <a href="http://www.archer.ac.uk">ARCHER</a>, the UK's national
  supercomputing service, offers training in software development and
  high-performance computing to scientists and researchers across the
  UK. As part of our training service we are running a two-day Data
  Carpentry workshop. 
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  This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools,
  including program design, version control, data management,
  and task automation.
  Participants will be encouraged to help one another
  and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
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  <em>
    For more information on what we teach and why,
    please see our paper
    "<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745">Best Practices for Scientific Computing</a>".
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<h2>Registration</h2>
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To register, or to get more information, please, visit the <a
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    <h3>Day 1</h3>
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      <tr> <td>10:00</td> <td>Welcome and set-up</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>10:30</td> <td>Version control with Git</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>11:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>12:00</td> <td>Version control with Git</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>13:00</td> <td>Lunch break</td> </tr>
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      <tr> <td>10:00</td> <td>Python</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>11:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>12:00</td> <td>Python</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>13:00</td> <td>Lunch break</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>14:00</td> <td>Data Management with SQL</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>15:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>16:00</td> <td>Data Management with SQL</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>16:30</td> <td>Wrap-up and feedback</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>17:00</td> <td>Close</td> </tr>
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  <strong>Sharing is caring:</strong> <a href="http://pad.software-carpentry.org/2018-06-18-LSE">Etherpad</a>.
  <br/>
  We will use this etherpad for sharing thoughts, exercises, URLs and bits of code.
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<p>
  <strong>Workshop Feedback:</strong> <a href="http://bit.ly/180618-SWC-LSE">http://bit.ly/180618-SWC-LSE</a>.
  <br/>
  Feedback helps us improve and also helps us continue to get funding to run more workshops like this. Thank you!
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<h2>Syllabus</h2>

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    <h3>Version Control with Git</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Creating a repository</li>
      <li>Recording changes to files: <code>add</code>, <code>commit</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Viewing changes: <code>status</code>, <code>diff</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Ignoring files</li>
      <li>Working on the web: <code>clone</code>, <code>pull</code>, <code>push</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Resolving conflicts</li>
      <li>Open licenses</li>
      <li>Where to host work, and why</li>
      <li><a href="http://hpcarcher.github.io/git-novice/">Reference...</a></li>
    </ul>
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    <h3>Automating tasks with Make</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Make is not just for compiling code</li>
      <li>Basic Tasks</li>
      <li>Automatic Variables and Wildcards</li>
      <li>Patterns</li>
      <li>Variables</li>
      <li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/">Reference...</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
    
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    <h3>Building programs with Python</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Using libraries</li>
      <li>Working with arrays</li>
      <li>Reading and plotting data</li>
      <li>Creating and using functions</li>
      <li>Loops and conditionals: <code>for</code>, <code>if</code>, <code>else</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Defensive programming</li>
      <li>Using Python from the command line</li>
      <li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/">Reference...</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
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  <div class="span6">
    <h3>Data Management with SQL</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Introduction to SQL</li>
      <li>Basic Queries</li>
      <li>Aggregation</li>
      <li>Joins and aliases</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/sql-ecology-lesson/">Reference...</a></li>
     </ul>
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  <em>before</em> the start of your workshop.
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<h2>Recognising prompts and how to exit</h2>

<p>
If you find yourself in a shell that you don't recognise, or in an editor that you can't get out of then see <a href="https://hpcarcher.github.io/2014-12-03-edinburgh/novice/ref/05-prompts-exits.html">Recognising prompts and how to exit</a>.
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<h2>Useful links</h2>
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<p>
Software Carpentry online lessons:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/">Version Control with Git</a></li>
<li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/">Programming with Python</a></li>
<li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/">Automating tasks with make</a></li>
<li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/sql-novice-survey/">Databases and SQL</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
Git:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
GitHub <a href="https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1">interactive Git tutorials</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/">Git pretty</a> - a flowchart about how to recover from mistakes.
</li>
<a href="https://presentate.com/bobthecow/talks/changing-history">Changing History, or How to Git pretty</a> - slides relating to the above.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Python:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html">matplotlib examples gallery</a> - includes source code.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://wiki.scipy.org/Cookbook">SciPy Cookbook</a> - examples of how to do useful stuff using numpy, scipy, matplotlib, interfacing, etc.
</li>
<li>
Scientific Python <a href="http://scipy-lectures.github.io/">lecture notes</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
Training:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/">ARCHER Training</a> - free HPC training all over the UK.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.codecademy.com/">Code Academy</a> - free online programming courses</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Papers:
</p>
<p>
Wilson G, Aruliah DA, Brown CT, Chue Hong NP, Davis M, et al. (2014)  
Best Practices for Scientific Computing. PLoS Biol 12(1): e1001745. <a 
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745">doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745</a>.
</p>
<p>
Sandve GK, Nekrutenko A, Taylor J, Hovig E (2013) Ten Simple Rules for  
Reproducible Computational Research. PLoS Comput Biol 9(10): e1003285. 
<a 
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285">doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285</a>.
</p>
<p>
Noble WS (2009) A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology 
Projects. PLoS Comput Biol 5(7): e1000424. <a 
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424">doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424</a>.
</p>
<p>
Ram K (2013) "git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased
transparency in science", Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2013,
8:7 <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-8-7">doi:10.1186/1751-0473-8-7</a>.
</p>
<p>
Glass, R. (2002) Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 2002. (<a href="http://ff.tu-sofia.bg/~bogi/France/SoftEng/books/Addison%20Wesley%20-%20Robert%20L%20Glass%20-%20Facts%20and%20Fallacies%20of%20Software%20Engineering.pdf">PDF</a>).
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