Recently a >”software carpentry” bootcamp and was very well attended–about 50 people, mostly grad students from KU and K-State, gathered for two days to learn coding and version control. It was targeted towards science students and most of the participants were from fields like evolutionary ecology and biology, but I really liked the stated purpose of the sessions and would love to see something like this for humanities students become part of the general curriculum: “to help scientists and engineers become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing, and task automation.”

Also, I really like Miriam Posner’s recent post, How did they make that?. Her examples could serve as the basis for a very useful series of workshops!