A hands-on 2-day Software Carpentry workshop at U. Hawaii

On November 30 and December 1 2012, we’ll be holding a Software Carpentry Boot Camp at U. Hawaii Manoa. This page contains the instructions on the tools you need to set up in advance for the course.

We are hosting all course materials on github; this page has more details on the schedule.

Please contact Fernando or Erik Bray if you run into any problems and we’ll do our best to assist you.

Accounts and software install¶

Start by signing up for a (free) account on Github.

Mac or Windows users

• Download and install git. You can accept all the default options from the installer.
• Download and install the free edition of the Enthought Python Distribution (EPD).

You will also need to update the IPython notebook installation to the current version:

• On a Mac, using the Terminal application:

  sudo enpkg enstaller
  sudo enpkg ipython

• On Windows, at the Command Prompt (cmd.exe application):

  enpkg enstaller
  enpkg ipython

Linux users

You can also use EPD, but most up to date distributions have everything we need in their package managers. On Ubuntu or other Debian-based distributions, type at the shell:

sudo apt-get install git ipython python-scipy python-matplotlib python-nose

On Fedora or other non-apt distributions, please refer to your package manager (the package names should be very similar).

Test that everything is ready¶

Once you’ve installed the code above, please download (save to your disk) this file and execute it as per the instructions contained in it (at the top). It runs a set of sanity checks on your system to ensure that things are reasonably well installed, and will provide diagnostics information along with instructions on what to do.