Project Summary
Software Carpentry helps researchers be more productive by teaching them basic computing skills. We run boot camps at dozens of sites around the world utilising volunteer instructors and openly licensed materials, and also provide open access material online for self-paced instruction.
All Software Carpentry instructional material is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Except where otherwise noted, the example programs and other software provided by Software Carpentry are made available under the OSI-approved MIT license. See http://www.software-carpentry.org/license.html
In a Nutshell, Software Carpentry...
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took an estimated 45 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2012
ending with its most recent commit over 9 years ago
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