We are offering free registration to an in-person Carpentries Workshop in Git for Curtin University staff and students, held from 8:45 am - 4:00 pm on the 3rd of April 2025.

This hands-on workshop will cover an introduction to version control using Git, a free and open source distributed version control system.

The Carpentries mission is to build global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

For more information on what we and the Carpentries teach and why, please see the paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".

Registration is free of charge, but please make sure you cancel your booking through Humantix at least 48 hours prior to the event if you are unable to attend, so someone else can take your spot. Please be aware that people who register for CIDS events and then do not attend (without cancellation) will not be able to attend future CIDS events.

Please register with your Curtin University staff or student email address.

Course Content: Version control is an efficient method of keeping a record of changes made to your work over time. Each set of changes creates a new commit of the files and the version control system allows users to recover old commits reliably and helps manage conflicting changes made by different users. It is extremely useful for collaborating with others and for managing individual projects, and a crucial component of reproducible research.

Who: This workshop will teach version control using Git, a free and open source distributed version control system. The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop (but you need to know how to use a laptop).

Where: TL Robertson Library, Building 105, Room 542, Kent Street, Bentley. Get directions with Curtin Campus Maps.

For syllabus and schedule: For the schedule please see the event page: https://curtinids.github.io/2025-04-03-curtin-carpentries-git

Requirements: Participants must have a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed on the workshop webpage). They are also required to abide by the Carpentries Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please email: CurtinIDS@curtin.edu.au for more information.

Please be aware that we will be taking pictures during the event for our archive and marketing purposes. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let us know at CurtinIDS@curtin.edu.au.

Additional R and python workshops

The Curtin Library is also running the following workshops in R and Python for Curtin staff and students:

Week 3, 11/3, Tuesday 1:30-3:30pm - Data Literacy with R - Online:

https://bookings.library.curtin.edu.au/calendar/workshops/data-literacy-with-r-online

Week 4, 18/3, Tuesday 1:30-3:30pm - Data Literacy with Python - Online:

https://bookings.library.curtin.edu.au/calendar/workshops/data-literacy-with-python-online

Week 5, 25/3, Tuesday 12-2pm - Data Literacy with R - In Person (105.542):

https://bookings.library.curtin.edu.au/calendar/workshops/data-literacy-with-r-in-person

Week 5, 27/3, Thursday 12-2pm - Data Literacy with Python - In Person (105.542):

https://bookings.library.curtin.edu.au/calendar/workshops/data-literacy-with-python-in-person