General Introduction

Overview

Teaching: 15 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How is this course going to work?

Objectives

• Be comfortable in the course

Structure of the course

This course is organized to be taught on a single day. The schedule is rather flexible to adapt best to your pace.

As much as possible this course is designed to be a hands-on experience with as many practical exercises as possible.

Presentations

Ice breaker

• Tell us your name

• Tell us the name of your group (Theory in Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, etc.)

• Define your research using a single word (e.g., “legumes”)

Learning Goals

• Being able to navigate through your computer in the Terminal
• Setup a project with git and save its history
• Synchronize the local project with GitHub and manage conflicts
• Be able to use git from RStudio
• Synchronize your code with the EVE High Performing Computer cluster
• Explore code on GitHub with your history
• Be able to generate a DOI from Zenedo with a GitHub repository

The way we’ll teach

• Two teachers alternating
• Live-coding as much as possible (show how code works)
• Do take notes if you want to
• Everything (material & exercises) will be provided at the end of the workshop
• Questions anytime
• First time running this course, so be understanding :)

Schedule

Please refer to the home page

Key Points

• The course material will be provided through a website and with corresponding PDF.