Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Aug 18, 2014
9:00 am - 13:00 pm
Instructors: Alex Viana, Raniere Silva
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General Information
Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers become more productive by teaching them basic lab skills for computing like program design, version control, data management, and task automation. This two-day hands-on bootcamp will cover basic concepts and tools; participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers.
Where: Auditório Ministro João Alberto Lins de Barros do CBPF – Rua Lauro Muller, 455 – térreo – Botafogo – Rio de Janeiro – RJ. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Contact: Please mail raniere@ime.unicamp.br for more information.
Schedule
Day 1
| 09:00 | What is Software Carpentry? |
| 09:30 | A Better Kind of Backup |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Collaborating |
| 12:00 | Conflicts |
Syllabus
Version Control with Git
- Creating a repository
- Recording changes to files:
add,commit, ... - Viewing changes:
status,diff, ... - Ignoring files
- Working on the web:
clone,pull,push, ... - Resolving conflicts
- Open licenses
- Where to host work, and why
- Reference...
Setup
To participate in a Software Carpentry bootcamp, you will need working copies of the software described below. Please make sure to install everything (or at least to download the installers) before the start of your bootcamp.
Overview
Editor
When you're writing code, it's nice to have a text editor that is optimized for writing code, with features like automatic color-coding of key words. The default text editor on Mac OS X and Linux is usually set to Vim, which is not famous for being intuitive.
Git
Git is a state-of-the-art version control system. It lets you track who made changes to what when and has options for easily updating a shared or public version of your code on github.com.
Windows
Git Bash
Download and install Git for Windows.
Editor
nano is the editor installed by the Software Carpentry Installer,
it is a basic editor integrated into the lesson material.
Notepad++ is a popular free code editor for Windows. Be aware that you must add its installation directory to your system path in order to launch it from the command line (or have other tools like Git launch it for you). Please ask your instructor to help you do this.
Mac OS X
Editor
We recommend
Text Wrangler or
Sublime Text.
In a pinch, you can use nano,
which should be pre-installed.
Git
Install Git for Mac by downloading and running the installer. For older versions of OS X (10.5-10.7) use the most recent available installer available here. Use the Leopard installer for 10.5 and the Snow Leopard installer for 10.6-10.7.
Linux
Git
If Git is not already available on your machine you can try
to install it via your distro's package manager
(e.g. apt-get or yum).
Editor
Kate is one option for Linux users.
In a pinch, you can use nano,
which should be pre-installed.