Recent Releases of better-research-software
better-research-software - Beta release July 2025
What's Changed
- Collapsed first three episodes into introduction, got learners to try to run the code early on
- Folded the FAIR reseach software discussion into the content on better reseach software, and move some FAIR parts to wrap up
- Cut down on Git content as learners are expected to be familiar with it
- Added better explanation on difficulties of using virtual environments and what issues learners may have but highlighting that this is still good practice
- Added fixing of the encoding issue with the code directly in the material and example software project
- Added start erand finisher code for all episodes by linking to branches in the example software project repo
- Unified the "bad" and "better" example software project into one repo
- Renamed the repository to better-research-software and handled redirections as much as possible
- Added alt text to all images and improved alt text content
- Various spelling fixes and text polishes
- Added various Issue templates
New Contributors
- @tobyhodges made their first contribution in https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/better-research-software/pull/196
- @eroesch made their first contribution in https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/better-research-software/pull/244
Acknowledgements
This improved version of the course has been made possible by the wonderful work of Toby Hodges, Sarah Stevens, Aman Goel, Etienne Roesch and Aleks Nenadic.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/better-research-software/compare/beta-May-2025...beta-July2025
- Python
Published by anenadic 10 months ago
better-research-software - alpha-July-2024
The alpha release of the course material - after pilot 1 of the course.
- Python
Published by anenadic almost 2 years ago