Hi Everyone,

I am asking if there are any individuals in basic sciences labs where
programming is NOT expected who have taken a Software Carpentry workshop
and use the skills introduced, and are willing to detail how Software
Carpentry has impacted their workflow.

I recently took some time in our Journal Club to give a presentation on why
our university should host a Software Carpentry workshop, and one
individual really pressed me on examples to convince someone like the chair
of the Biology or Molecular Biology department to put money out for this. I
think the example in the introductory shell scripting lesson (
http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/00-intro.html) is illustrative of
a common problem, but the testimonials on the website (
https://software-carpentry.org/pages/testimonials.html) seem to be mostly
from people in groups where some programming was at least expected.

Thanks in advance,

-Robert

Robert M Flight, PhD
Bioinformatics Research Associate
Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics
Markey Cancer Center
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Twitter: @rmflight
Web: rmflight.github.io
EM [email protected]
PH 502-509-1827

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." - Isaac
Asimov
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