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Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive
November/December 2006 (vol. 8 no. 6)
pp. 66-69
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Greg Wilson, "Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 66-69, November/December, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2006.122,
author = {Greg Wilson},
title = {Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {8},
number = {6},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2006},
pages = {66-69},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2006.122},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Greg Wilson, University of Toronto
In 2005, I taught a course on basic software development skills to 37 graduate students at the University of Toronto. Fourteen were studying computer science; the rest were in physics, the life sciences, mechanical and civil engineering, and other disciplines. Only four of the students used a version-control system when the course started, and only two of those were from computer science. Only one (a physicist working on a multinational collaboration) tested his software as a matter of routine; none used any kind of code-checking tools.
Index Terms:
physics education, computation in undergraduate education, continuing education, software engineering
Citation:
Greg Wilson, "Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 66-69, Nov./Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2006.122
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