Summary and Schedule

This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.

	Setup Instructions	Download files required for the lesson
Duration: 00h 00m	1. What is Computational Reprodicibility?	What is computational reproducibility?
Duration: 00h 10m	2. Capturing computational environments	What is a package manager? What are virtual environments? How can we use them to capture information about a specific computational environment
Duration: 00h 20m	3. Getting started with venvand pip	How do I create a venv? How do I install packages into my new venv?
Duration: 00h 30m	4. Using venv and pip to capture a computational environment	How do I use venv and pip to capture my computational envrionments?
Duration: 00h 40m	5. Limitations	What are the limitations of venv? What are the limitations of virtual environments more generally?
Duration: 00h 50m	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.

Software Setup

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This course will use the Python programming language, and we will be running commands in the Command Line Interface (CLI, also nown as the Shell or Terminal)

Windows

CLI

Powershell is the recommended way of running commands for this course. It should already be installed on your computer.

Python

There is a guide for using Python on Windows in the Python documentation. Python Releases for Windows are available at Python.org.

MacOS

CLI

Terminal is available by default on Macs, and is the recommended way of running commands for this course.

Python

Please read the guide on using Python on a Mac in the Python documentation.

Linux

CLI

Terminal is available by default on Linux-based OSes, and is the recommended way of running commands for this course.

Python

Please read the guide on using Python on Unix platforms in the Python documentation.