These days -- regardless of the research you're pursuing -- you're going to be using computers. With computers come many choices in software (and, increasingly, user accounts). This course will add several to your list, but at least two of them (Git and LaTeX) are in many ways much more of a tool in your toolbelt than just another app.
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- Welcome & Brief introductions
- Course philosophy & Overview
- Pairing up for accountabilibuddies
- Break (5 min.)
- Software & account setup
- Start creating Project Proposals (remaining time)
- GitHub.com (required)
- Online LaTeX editor (e.g., Overleaf) (optional)
- Git or Git for Windows (required)
- LaTex (required)
- Stand-alone Git GUI (e.g., Sourcetree) (required if not using command-line)
- Stand-alone LaTeX editor (e.g., TeXstudio) or a more general editor (e.g., Atom*) (required if not using online editor)
- Discord (potential Zoom replacement)
- LaTeXiT (stand-alone equation editor)
- draw.io (online workflow diagram app)
- MDpreview (online Markdown previewer)
- Hampton et al. 2017 Skills and knowledge for data-intensive environmental research.
- McKiernan et al. 2016 How open science helps researchers succeed.