How to Cite Software Carpentry
If you are citing Software Carpentry in papers or technical reports, the web site and the 2006 article in Computing in Science & Engineering are probably best; the other articles below provide other background that might also be useful. I hope to update the 2006 article some time this year, but a lot of other things are ahead of it in queue...
@article{wilson-bottleneck, author = {Gregory V. Wilson}, title = {Where's the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?}, journal = {American Scientist}, month = {January--February}, year = {2005}, note = {Discusses the difference between machine speed and human productivity, and explains why the latter is more important for most computational scientists.} } @article{wilson-software-carpentry, author = {Greg Wilson}, title = {Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive}, journal = {Computing in Science \& Engineering}, month = {November--December}, year = {2006}, note = {Summarizes the what and why of Version 3 of the course.} } @article{wilson-learn-history, author = {Greg Wilson}, title = {Those Who Will Not Learn From History...}, journal = {Computing in Science \& Engineering}, month = {May--June}, year = {2008}, note = {Argues that equating "scientific computing" and "high performance computing" is bad for the former, and detrimental to most computational scientists.} } @inproceedings{hannay-scientific-software-survey, author = {Jo Erskine Hannay and Hans Petter Langtangen and Carolyn MacLeod and Dietmar Pfahl and Janice Singer and Greg Wilson}, title = {How Do Scientists Develop and Use Scientific Software?}, booktitle = {Proc. 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering}, year = {2009}, note = {Summarizes the largest survey ever done of how scientists actually use computers, what they know, and what they find difficult.} } @article{wilson-scientists-really-use-computers, author = {Gregory Wilson}, title = {How Do Scientists Really Use Computers?}, journal = {American Scientist}, month = {September--October}, year = {2009}, note = {A short (and more readable) summary of the survey reported in Hannay et al.} } @misc{software-carpentry, author = {Greg Wilson}, title = {Software Carpentry web site}, howpublished = {https://software-carpentry.org}, accessed = {December 2010}, note = {Main web site for Software Carpentry, replacing http://swc.scipy.org.} }