On 17th & 18th June, Advanced Research Computing are hosting an online Software Carpentry workshop for researchers at the University of Birmingham. Attendance is on the mornings of BOTH days from 10-1pm.
The Carpentries are a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives. They teach skills that are immediately useful for researchers, using lessons and datasets that allow researchers to quickly apply what they’ve learned to their own work. We're really excited about using the Software Carpentry curriculum here to help our researchers become more efficient in their research. This workshop is focused on programming with MATLAB.
Learning Outcomes
- To become familiar with how to launch MATLAB and navigate the interface
- To understand how MATLAB works with variables and arrays
- To be able to process and visualise data
- To understand how to create, save, and re-run programs and functions
- To become familiar with core programming concepts such as loops and statements
The target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience, and the instructors put a priority on creating a friendly environment to empower researchers and enable data-driven discovery. Even those with some experience will benefit, as the goal is to teach not only how to do analyses, but how to manage the process to make it as automated and reproducible as possible.
Please note that our courses are for research staff and research students only. Taught students - undergraduate and postgraduate - are not eligible to attend.
More information about Software Carpentry can be found here: BEAR Carpentries - University of Birmingham
