The first of a series of student led workshops forming part of the NGCM Advanced Computational Methods II module was given today by Paul Chambers and Robert Entwistle from the NGCM Centre for Doctoral Training, covering text editors and customisation of the Sublime Text 2 editor. This event and future …
As part of the workshops delivered through the NGCM Advanced Computational Methods II module, today’s workshop was focussed on an introduction to Version Control, and version control using Mercurial. All the teaching materials are available at http://computationalmodelling.bitbucket.org/tools/mercurial.html, and can be used to work through the material or as a reference. …
The Software Carpentry movement aims to save researchers a day a week for the rest of their careers by training people in computational thinking. Led by Greg Wilson, the volunteers run workshops all over the world, covering computational tools such as modular, testable programming (via python or R), version control …
Today, the CDT students in year 1 learned about webpage and blog generation using the Pelican tool in a session delivered by the centre’s director. Static webpages, as are often used for webpages containing teaching material, documentation and blogs, can be created in many ways. Over the recent years, many …
The Python Programming Primer is the first training experience that the NGCM CDT students take part in. For our cohort starting in Autumn 2014, this course was taking place two weeks before the start of the teaching semester, to provide a common base in programming: most of the taught modules …