AUG 27
FALL 2026 COMPUTING FOUNDATIONS WORKSHOP SERIES
PRESENTED BY: RESEARCH COMPUTING & DATA, A DIVISION OF ITS
One semester.
Eight ways to grow.
Choose individual workshops or complete a stuctured pathway in foundational computing skills.
Select Thursdays
6:00–9:00 PM Central Time
Bruner Hall, Rm 126
No experience required
Workshop schedule
Choose where to begin.
Unix and Git are repeated offerings. Programming lessons require attendance at both listed meetings.
Foundational skills - choose one offering of each
SEP 3
The Unix Shell
Offering 2 - repeat
Setup coming soon
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SEP 10
Version Control with Git
Offering 1
Setup coming soon
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SEP 17
Version Control with Git
Offering 2 - repeat
Setup coming soon
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Programming lessons - attend both listed meetings
SEP 24 + OCT 1
Programming with Python
Parts 1 and 2 - attend both meetings
Setup coming soon
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OCT 8 + OCT 22
Programming with R
Parts 1 and 2 - attend both meetings
Setup coming soon
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OCT 29 + NOV 5
Plotting and Programming in Python
Parts 1 and 2 - attend both meetings
Setup coming soon
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NOV 12 + NOV 19
R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
Parts 1 and 2 - attend moth meetings
Setup coming soon
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Complete the pathway
Complete four meetings. Show what you learned.
Attend one Unix offering, one Git offering, and both meetings of any programming lesson.
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Unix
1
Git
2
Programming
What to know
Prepare, participate, and follow up.
Come ready to learn
Bring a Mac, Windows, or Linux laptop and its charging cable. Workshop-specific setup instructions will be available from each event listing.
Need a laptop? Tennessee Tech students and employees may request information about laptop availability through the ITS Help Desk on the main floor of Volpe Library.
Advance registration is requested. Attendance is limited to 20 participants per event.
Help us improve the series
Complete the pre-workshop survey before attending. After your final session, use the post-workshop survey to tell us about your experience.
Workshop Logistics
- Who
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These workshops are open to all students, faculty, staff, and researchers who want to work more confidently with data, code, and computational tools. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
- Where
- Bruner Hall, Room 126, 110 University Drive, Cookeville, TN 38501. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
- When
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Select Thursdays; 6:00–9:00 PM Central Time
- Requirements
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Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. Each event listing links to the software and data setup instructions required for that lesson.
- Accessibility
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We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
- The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
- Accessible restrooms are available.
We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request accessibility support for this workshop, please fill out the accessibility support request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accessibility support form please email us.
Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.
- Workshop Recordings
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Carpentries workshops are designed to be interactive rather than lecture-based, with lessons that build upon one another. To foster a positive online learning environment, we strongly recommend that participants join in real time. As a result, workshop recordings are not recommended and may not be available to learners.
- Contact
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Please email scolson@tntech.edu or sw-tlclark@tntech.edu for more information.
- Workshop FAQ
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For answers to frequently asked questions about workshops, refer to the Carpentries Workshop FAQ.
The Carpentries
The Carpentries project comprises the Data Carpentry, High-Performance Computing Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic 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.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
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