Overview

Core: Supporting Information 1

Published

18 September, 2024

This week you will revise some essential concepts for scientific computing: file system organisation, file types, working directories and paths. The workshop will cover a rationale for working reproducibly, project oriented workflow, naming things and documenting your work.

Learning objectives

The successful student will be able to:

  • explain the organisation of files and directories in a file systems including root, home and working directories
  • explain absolute and relative file paths
  • explain why working reproducibly is important
  • know how to use a project-oriented workflow to organise work
  • be able to give files human- and machine-readable names
  • write cool 😎 code not 😩 ugly code
  • explain the value of code which expresses the structure of the problem/solution.
  • use some useful shortcuts to help write cool 😎 code

Instructions

  1. Prepare

    1. 📖 Read Understanding file systems

  2. Workshop

  3. Consolidate