nano is a basic editor and the default that instructors use in the workshop. It is installed along with Git.
Aug 11-12, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm MDT
Instructors: David Gustavsen, Danielle Maurici-Pollock, Andres Reyes, Harry Snow, Jon Wheeler
Helpers: Todd Quinn
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Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: Room B30 Zimmerman Library, 1 University of New Mexico, 87131. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: Aug 11-12, 2025; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm MDT Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request an accommodation for this workshop, please fill out the accommodation request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accommodation form please email us.
Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.
Workshop Recordings: Carpentries workshops are designed to be interactive rather than lecture-based, with lessons that build upon one another. To foster a positive online learning environment, we strongly recommend that participants join in real time. As a result, workshop recordings are not recommended and may not be available to learners.
Contact: Please email jwheel01@unm.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| Before | Pre-workshop survey |
| 09:00 | Building Programs with Python |
| 10:30 | Morning break |
| 11:00 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 14:30 | Afternoon break |
| 15:00 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 16:00 | Wrap-up |
| 16:30 | END |
| 09:00 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 10:30 | Morning break |
| 11:00 | Building Programs with Python (Continued) |
| 11:30 | Post-workshop Survey |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | Instructor Developed Lesson: Programming Python with AI |
| 14:30 | Afternoon break |
| 15:00 | Instructor Developed Lesson: Programming Python with AI (Continued) |
| 16:00 | Wrap-up |
| 16:40 | END |
To participate in a Software Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
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 macOS and Linux is usually set to Vim, which is not famous for being intuitive. If you accidentally find yourself stuck in it, hit the Esc key, followed by :+Q+! (colon, lower-case 'q', exclamation mark), then hitting Return to return to the shell.
nano is a basic editor and the default that instructors use in the workshop. It is installed along with Git.
nano is a basic editor and the default that instructors use in the workshop. See the Git installation video tutorial for an example on how to open nano. It should be pre-installed.
nano is a basic editor and the default that instructors use in the workshop. It should be pre-installed.
Python is a popular language for research computing, and great for general-purpose programming as well. Installing all of its research packages individually can be a bit difficult, so we recommend Conda-forge, an all-in-one installer.
Regardless of how you choose to install it, please make sure you install a Python version >= 3.9 (e.g. 3.11 is fine, 3.6 is not).
We will teach Python using the Jupyter Notebook, a programming environment that runs in a web browser (Jupyter Notebook will be installed by Miniforge). For this to work you will need a reasonably up-to-date browser. The current versions of the Chrome, Safari and Firefox browsers are all supported (some older browsers, including Internet Explorer version 9 and below, are not).
Minforge3-Windows-x86_64.exe)conda env create -f .\Downloads\carpentries_environment.ymlcd ~/Downloads).
bash Miniforge3-and then press Tab to autocomplete the full file name. The name of file you just downloaded should appear.
yes and press enter to approve the license.
Press Enter (or Return)
to approve the default location
for the files.
Type yes and press
Enter (or Return)
to prepend Miniforge to your PATH
(this makes the Miniforge distribution the default Python).
conda env create -f ~/Downloads/carpentries_environment.ymlbash Miniforge3-and then press Tab to autocomplete the full file name. The name of file you just downloaded should appear.
yes and press enter to approve the license.
Press Enter (or Return)
to approve the default location
for the files.
Type yes and press
Enter (or Return)
to prepend Miniforge to your PATH
(this makes the Miniforge distribution the default Python).
conda env create -f ~/Downloads/carpentries_environment.yml