Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned

2013/07/20 by Greg Wilson, Wilson, Greg · 2 citations
Decision Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #General Literature (cs.GL) #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #Scientific Computing and Data Management

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.5448

openalex publication_date 2013/07/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Over the last 15 years, Software Carpentry has evolved from a week-long training course at the US national laboratories into a worldwide volunteer effort to raise standards in scientific computing. This article explains what we have learned along the way the challenges we now face, and our plans for the future.

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