Programming for Biologists
Teaching biologists the tools they need to use computers to do cool science
The National Science Foundation is supporting the development of both the university courses and this site through an NSF CAREER award.
USU’s Department of Biology and in particular Dept. Head Butch Brodie and former Dept. Head Daryll Dewald have supported the development of the university courses through time off from other teaching endeavors and facilitating access to appropriate classroom facilities (which is harder to obtain than you might think).
Software Carpentry has been teaching scientists and engineers the concepts, skills, and tools they need to use and build software more productively since 1977. All of the content is freely available under a Creative Commons license (the same one we use here), and the existence of this content not only saves me a massive amount of time and effort, but also taught me a lot of what I know about programming well.
This site runs on the excellent, open-source, Drupal content management system.
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