Lesson Material

Most of this material originated with a grassroots group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison called The Hacker Within and has been modified by Software Carpentry instructors over multiple bootcamps.

Day 1

Software Carpentry -- Welcome and overview

Overview slides

Installation check

You need a working copy of bash (gitbash on windows), git, and python to participate, and enough connectivity to syncrhonize the instrucitonal materials on github. If you can run

git clone 
https://github.com/wltrimbl/2013-12-03-sesync

, your git is working. If you can launch ipython notebook from the command line your python is probably working, too.

The Unix Shell

Please open a terminal and follow along on the tutorial page.

Python variables: Please open 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/thw-python/vars-types/variables.ipynb and 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/thw-python/vars-types/exercises.ipynb with ipython notebook
Python data structures: 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/thw-python/data-structures/data-structures.ipynb.
Python flow control: 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/thw-python/flow-control/python_flow_control.ipynb.

Day 2

Version Control Local: Please open a terminal and follow along on the tutorial page tutorial page.
Version Control Remote: Please open a terminal, sign into GitHub, and follow along on the tutorial page tutorial page.
Python functions and modules: 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/thw-python/functions-modules/python_functions_and_modules.ipynb.
Python testing: Testing lesson notes.
Shell automation (for/find/grep): tutorial page.
Python regular expressions: 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/.
Python debugging tools: 2013-12-03-sesync/lessons/thw-python-debugging.

The rest

Index to other lessons