ACENET: Introductory Programming for Humanities & Social Science

Mon, Nov 15, 2021 12:00pm - Tue, Nov 23, 2021 3:00pm

Status: Completed

Introductory workshop for researchers/students who are interested in programming basics for Humanities and Social Sciences applications.

No prior experience with programming is required. Applications include digital data organization and preparation in the humanities, including tools for searching textual data, and internet data collection from platforms such as Twitter.

Nov 15th - 12:00pm - 3:00pm (AT) Introduction to the Command line*

Nov 16th - 12:00pm - 3:00pm (AT) Powering up your search skills with Regular Expressions

Nov 22nd - 12:00pm - 3:00pm (AT) Python for Humanities*

Nov 23rd - 12:00pm - 3:00pm (AT) Internet data collection with Python and API's

*Workshop is partially based on Software-Carpentry (SWC) materials.

Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all four as later sessions build on previous material. You need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. 

Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail).

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