Date: 22-23rd April 2026
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Location: Vivian Tower, room X
Speakers: Gaurav Ray and Ed Bennett, Research Software Engineers at Swansea Academy of Advanced Computing, Swansea University
Contact Information: Ed Bennett, <e.j.bennett@swansea.ac.uk>
Overview of Event:
Do you wish that you could make Python do what you wanted? Have you always been mystified by the command line? Do you find yourself losing track of all the different copies of your code that you have? Software Carpentry can help you develop the skills to overcome these problems and more!
A growing number of researchers spend more and more time building and using software, but few have ever been taught how to do this efficiently. In many cases they end up spending more time than necessary to create results whose reliability and reproducibility is unknown. The aim of Software Carpentry is to teach researchers the fundamental skills that will help them be more productive while producing work of higher quality. We do that by teaching two day workshops, where students learn how to automate tasks using the Unix shell, how to track and share work using version control, and how to write software in Python that is readable, reusable, and reliable. No prior knowledge or experience of programming is needed to follow these workshops.
If you are interested in joining this event, please register at https://pretix.eu/swanseauni/swc-2026-04-22/. For more information, please see the workshop page at https://sa2c.swansea.ac.uk/2026-04-22-swansea/.