We’ve lined up a variety of workshops for THATCamp Canterbury 2014 this Friday.

People interested in learning the art of programming will want to attend an introductory workshop being run by Jonathan Harker from Catalyst IT. Jonathan will introduce the Python programming language, show us how to get started, and suggest a few tricks to help people with their research. We’ll be using the iPython notebook, which runs in your browser. We’ll learn how to get a basic Hello World going, construct loops and if-else statements, then move into fun stuff like reading data from a web source and graphing it.

Anyone interested in more advanced python programming will be able to work through specific issues they might be facing in a separate workshop with Stuart Charters, Senior Lecturer in Applied Computing from Lincoln University.

And people interested in something completely different can jump into a Raspberry PI workshop with Benet Hitchcock from Starlifter Digital. Benet will bring a couple of PIs for people to play with. The University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme has two more we can use if people are keen.

None of the workshops are scheduled yet! We’ll suss out what people are keen to do first thing, and tailor them to suit. If you know of anyone who should be coming and isn’t registered, send them here. If you’ve got an idea for a session, share it here.

See you on Friday! Remember, kick-off is at 9.00 am in the Undercroft seminar room at the University of Canterbury.