About the workshop

This in-person workshop will demystify the command line and get you started using Bash and Bash scripting. Warning: you might find that working in the command line is actually really fun and addictive!

Requirements

Device and software installation

• Bring your own laptop.
• If your laptop runs Mac and Linux, you already have bash, and there is no need to install anything.
• If you are on Windows, we will provide guest accounts on our remote Linux system — please install an SSH client such as MobaXterm free Home Edition (from http://bit.ly/2O3ovMC) before coming to the workshop.

Prerequisites
None.

Facilitator

Marie-Hélène Burle

Marie-Helene Burle (SFU Research Computing / Digital Research Alliance of Canada). Prior to entering the realm of computing, Marie-Helene Burle spent 15 years roaming the globe from the High Arctic to uninhabited Sub-Antarctic islands or desert tropical atolls, conducting bird and mammal research (she calls those her "years running after penguins"). As a PhD candidate in behavioural and evolutionary biology at Simon Fraser University, she "fell" into Emacs, R, and Linux. This turned Marie into an advocate for open source tools and improved computing literacy for all, as well as better coding practices and more reproducible workflows in science. She started to contribute to the open source community, became a Software and Data Carpentry Instructor, and worked at the SFU Research Commons providing programming support to researchers. When not behind a computer, Marie loves reading history books and looking for powder in the British Columbia backcountry on skis.