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venue: University of Southampton      # brief name of host site
address: Room 3077, Building 32, 
address2: School of Electronics and Computer Science, 
address3: University Road # street address of home location
country: United-Kingdom    # country (hyphenated if need be, like 'United-Kingdom')
language: en   # language code like 'en' or 'fr'
latlng: 50.934039,-1.396167     # fractional latitude and longitude like 41.7901128,-87.6007318
humandate: Sep 17-18, 2015  # use the format 'Feb 17-18, 2020' (without the quotes)
humantime: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm  # use the format '9:00 am - 4:30 pm' (without the quotes)
startdate: 2015-09-17  # use YYYY-MM-DD format like 2015-01-01
enddate: 2015-09-18    # use YYYY-MM-DD format like 2015-01-02
instructor: ["Steve Crouch", "John Robinson", "Devasena Inupakutika"] # list of names like ["Kay McNulty", "Betty Jennings", "Betty Snyder"]
helper: ["Olivier Philippe","Don Cruickshank"]     # list of names like ["Marlyn Wescoff", "Fran Bilas", "Ruth Lichterman"]
contact: s.hettrick@software.ac.uk    # contact email address for workshop organizer
eventbrite: 18310989663
etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/SWC-Soton-Sep2015

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<h2>General Information</h2>

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  <a href="{{site.swc_site}}">Software Carpentry</a>'s mission
  is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less
  time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for
  scientific computing.  This hands-on workshop will cover basic
  concepts and tools, including building and designing programs in Python, 
  managing the development of code with version control in Git, and testing 
  the correctness of Python code using the Nose unit test framework. Participants will be encouraged to help one another.
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  <em>
    For more information on what we teach and why,
    please see our paper
    "<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745">Best Practices for Scientific Computing</a>".
  </em>
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  <strong>Who:</strong>
  The course is aimed at postgraduate students and postdoctoral scientists who are familiar with basic programming concepts (like loops, conditionals, arrays, and functions) and would like to learn best 
  practice techniques and tools to develop their software more effectively and productively.
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  <strong>Requirements:</strong> Participants <strong>must</strong> bring a laptop with
  a few specific software packages installed (listed
  <a href="prerequisites.html">here</a>). They are also required to abide by
  Software Carpentry's
  <a href="{{site.swc_site}}/conduct.html">Code of Conduct</a>.
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  <strong>Contact</strong>:
  This workshop is being organised by the <a href='http://www.southampton.ac.uk/'>University of Southampton's</a> <a href='http://rsg.soton.ac.uk/'>Research Software Group</a>.
  Please mail
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<h2 margin=0px>What should I bring with me?</h2>
<p>
You must bring your own laptop! Before attending the workshop you need to install some useful and free software. For more information, <a href = "prerequisites.html">see the software prerequisites</a>.
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  Workshop schedule can be found at the <a href = "schedule.html">schedule page</a>. 
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<h2 margin=0px>Keep in touch during the workshop with Etherpad</h2>

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  We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
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<h2 margin=0px>Register an interest in our course for possible future dates</h2>

<p>
If you're interested in our training, but can't make the date, you can <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KW8DTErxhEXUJbtbwUfVw7s6AWwHKFNZNWSsALV2E0A/viewform">sign up to be notified</a> about future events.
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