Acknowledgments

April 24, 2010: We are pleased to announce that Version 4 of this course is now under development. For updates and an early peek at the content, please check out the Software Carpentry blog at http://www.software-carpentry.org/blog/.

This material is dedicated to Charles Darwin, John Scopes, and everyone who believes that the truth is more important than doctrine. We would like to thank:

• Los Alamos National Laboratory, for whom this course was created
• The Python Software Foundation, for supporting development of Version 2
• The University of Toronto, for letting me test this course on its students
• MITACS, for supporting development of Version 3

Major contributors include:

• Greg Wilson, the principal author of these notes
• Brent Gorda, who helped create an early version of this course
• Andrew Lumsdaine and Peter Gottschling, who beta-tested this course in the fall of 2005
• Adam Goucher, who gave detailed feedback on every lecture in Version 2
• Nick Discenza, who did the diagrams
• Eric Jones and everyone else at Enthought, who provided a home for Version 2
• Titus Brown, Chris Lasher, Rick Wagner, and Tiziano Zito for building their own courses on top of this one