For Those With Only a Passing Interest in Software Carpentry…

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Now that Software Carpentry Version 4 is a go, I’ve moved most blogging about scientific software development over to http://softwarecarpentry.wordpress.com. Recent highlights include:

  1. You can now follow Software Carpentry's progress on Twitter as @swcarpentry.
  2. I'm helping teach a course on analyzing next-generation sequencing data at Michigan State University at the end of May.
  3. Some thoughts on online course delivery.
  4. Some more thoughts on instructional design. (These two posts are mostly actually pleas for help.)
  5. The announcement that the course bibliography is online.
  6. A discussion of what's missing from that bibliography.
  7. My analysis of the pros and cons of various formats for the course material. Much to my own surprise, LaTeX is the frontrunner…