Teaching basic lab skills
for research computing

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Since 1998, Software Carpentry has been teaching researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain. Our volunteer instructors have run hundreds of events for more than 34,000 researchers since 2012. All of our lesson materials are freely reusable under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.

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Workshops

Workshop Growth
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Learners

Learner Growth
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Instructors

Instructor Growth
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Stats updated on 2018-02-05