Tuesday, July 1, 2014

NERC Short Course on Software Development

We will be offering a short course in software development, aimed at environmental scientists.

Software engineering is a large and complex discipline and so this NERC short course will focus on the most important and relevant elements for scientists, crucial amongst which are usability, maintainability, accuracy, and readability. These are the foundations of professional code development skills.  We will teach and demonstrate the benefits of good initial design, thorough testing, algorithm re-use and code progression, the ideas of elegance, abstraction, performance and scalability.

There will be two levels to run sequentially with the caveat that applicants for the second level must demonstrate competence at the first level through use of an online assessment.

The courses are aimed principally at PhD students and early career scientists, but all applications will be considered.

Please see http://www.resc.rdg.ac.uk/training/training_main.php for full details.