The workshop addresses the passing of software writing skills to young scientists, the next generation of researchers in the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The writing of code in science following minimal but vital software engineering rules, best practices and processes shall be imparted as fundamental skills. So the workshops addresses young scientist with some experience in writing software for their research work. The lessons will cover:

  • Databases and Applications
  • Version Control with Git and GitHub
  • Defensive Programming and Testing
  • Software Engineering in Science
  • Open Access, Open Data, and Open Science
  • Publishing scientific software


    Instructors:
  • Hussein El-Sayed - Hussein is an Egyptian Software Engineer who works at GoEuro Travel GmbH and graduated from Faculty of Computers and Information Technology. He focuses on spreading the importance of computer science tools and technologies among all researchers as this will increase the productivity and might give them accurate and efficient results if used correctly. He also runs a blog that has lots of useful topics about computer science.
  • Peter Steinbach - Peter is a high-performance computing developer at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He has a PhD in Particle Physics and is now responsible of accelerating scientific applications in a myriad of languages as well as on a zoology of hardware platforms.
  • Marta Hoffman-Sommer - Marta is a member of the Open Science Platform team. She participates in projects concerned with open research data and with data management. She is coordinating the launching of a new Repository for Open Data. By training and work experience, Marta is a molecular biologist.


    Prerequisites:
    First hands-on experiences and the need of programming and developing software in your own work. At least the material from the previous workshop should be known - see:
  • https://github.com/malvikasharan/software_writing_skills_potsdam
  • http://vahtras.github.io/git
  • http://vahtras.github.io/databases
  • http://vahtras.github.io/potsdam-automation

    • Agenda

    Training materials (novices)
    Training materials (intermediate)
    Training materials (proficient)

    Where

    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

    Full details

    Organisers: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/
    Language: English, German

    Topics

    Open Science
    Open Access
    Open Data
    Open Source in Open Science
    Open Science Workflows

    Audience

    Researchers and Students

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    EU flag This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612425.
    This project has also received funding from the European Union's Horizon2020 programme for research, technological development and demonstration under agreement no 741839.