Software Carpentries 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 introductory workshop will cover basic concepts and tools. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

This workshop will cover an introduction to Git and GitHub for version control. Version control is the lab notebook of the digital world: it’s what professionals use to keep track of what they’ve done and to collaborate with other people. Every large software development project relies on it, and most programmers use it for their small jobs as well. And it isn’t just for software: books, papers, small data sets, and anything that changes over time or needs to be shared can and should be stored in a version control system.

No prior knowledge is required; this workshop is geared for complete beginners.

This event takes place in person on the MIT campus over three days, from 10am to 4pm, in 45-801 (Schwarzman College of Computing).

This workshop is part of a three day series on practical software carpentry. Register for 1, 2 or all 3 days. Please go to each workshop to register for it separately:

• Tuesday, Jan 14: Introduction to Unix Shell
• Wednesday, Jan 15: Introduction to Git/GitHub
• Thursday, Jan 16: Introduction to Python

For more advanced topics in computing, look for the other Practical Computing workshops during IAP.

Important: After registering please follow the setup instructions on our website and download the Bash shell, a text editor, Git and GitHub desktop ahead of time.

The Carpentries workshops have a code of conduct.

Registration is open to MIT affiliates; non-MIT affiliates can register starting December 23.

This workshop is co-sponsored by MIT Libraries and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.