Resources

• Greg Wilson article: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/wheres-the-real-bottleneck-in-scientific-computing. A good article explaining why these tutorials are important to scientists and why scientists need development skills.

• http://software-carpentry.org/

  • "Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned" - http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5448

  • The latest version is under development and is text-based instead of video based: http://software-carpentry.org/v5/

  • These two links have the teaching instruction materials: basically, how to best teach programmers. Very important:

    • http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/curriculum/

    • http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/materials/

• PLoS Comp Bio:

  • survey/recommendations of http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003376

  • "Scientific Software Development Is Not an Oxymoron" suggested best practices (short): http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0020087

  • "Best practices for scientific computing" - longer tutorial. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001745

    • arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0530v4

• Other articles

  • "Understanding the High-Performance- Computing Community: A Software Engineer’s Perspective" https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/journals/J111.pdf

  • "A New Perspective in Scientific Software Development" http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-90-481-3658-2_23

• Scipy conference tutorial on scientific software git and unit testing: http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/tutorial_detail.php?id=106 Scipy conference talk

• http://scipy-lectures.github.io/ - too focused on Python itself, not about general development

• http://www.pythonbootcamp.info/schedule - too focused on Python itself, not about general development

• Petition to assert that software should be considered essential to research.

Notes on expanding tutorials

• Academics is so resource-limited that funding for learning these things is hard.
• Also, people are so time-stressed that they can't spend time doing anything but working on the next paper.
  • This just emphasizes the importance of my hour-long incremental approach. Every tutorial should leave the person feeling like there is someone they learned that they can immediately use.
  • Also, we should emphasize that not learning these things is just false laziness. It may take some investment, but it will be worth it.

Resources for teachers

• Page where topics in other courses are being collected: ScientificProgramming/Courses

• Software Carpentry instructors' guide: http://software-carpentry.org/v5/novice/teaching/index.html

• http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/