Course Catalogue

Introduction to the Unix Shell

An introduction to command line interaction with the Unix shell.*

Available on Moodle 

* Software Carpentry Workshops and the HPC Carpentry for UCL Central Cllusters course also teach the basics of using the shell.

An Introduction to Research Programming using Python

This course will introduce fundamental programming concepts and is aimed at researchers who want to use Python to manipulate and analyse data.

Available on Moodle

HPC Carpentry for UCL Central Clusters

This course introduces the essential things you'll need to know in order to access UCL's research computing clusters, use the command line, transfer files, load pre-installed software packages using environment modules, and submit jobs on the cluster using a scheduler.

Next instance: to be confirmed

Further information and registration: UCL HPC Carpentry

Available on Moodle

Software Carpentry Workshop

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Next instance: to be confirmed

 

Complete our expression of interest form

if you would like to be notified of future classroom-based instances of these courses when they become available (most of the courses are also available as a self-paced option on Moodle). You can also use the form to suggest topics you would like us to consider covering in future.

Electronic Research Notebook (ERN) training

UCL's new ERN service is provided by RSpace, who have some useful online training videos. Links to these can be found on the ERN further information web page.

Digital Skills Development courses

ISD's Digital Skills Development team also runs courses that may be of interest to researchers; forthcoming courses include:

• 22nd Nov 2022, 12-1pm DSD: In a Nutshell: Git version control (remotely-taught session). New date

This "in a nutshell" training is an introduction to setting up version control using Git. The command line interface (in contrast to the Graphical User Interface, or GUI) will be used to understand key functions of Git. This is a "hands on" workshop; prior to attending the session, participants are required to set up their computers for command line using Linux. (Further information on what you need to do will be sent to you when you register). Having done this course, participants should continue further training; we recommend the Software Carpentry Workshop (see ARC courses, above).

• 16th & 23rd Nov 2022 DSD: An Introduction to R with Rstudio (campus-based; 2 x three-hour in person sessions)

This course is designed to help you to use R and R-studio to import, manipulate, describe and analyse categorical and continuous data and to produce plots and tables to support analysis. You should have a good understanding of statistical concepts. No prior experience with R is required, but experience of using a spreadsheet application such as Excel would be an advantage.

Please follow the links to find out more and register if interested.

Webinars

In the 2020-21 academic year, we ran a series of lunchtime webinars for new researchers (and also for those who were just new to our services!) which lasted approximately 45 mins including questions. Recordings of these webinars are available below.