CCI Technical Skills Workshops
Starting in the 2023 academic year, the CCI technicians have been running a programme of Technical Skills workshops, focussed on developing essential technical skills for making work in the CCI. These cover a range of practical topics, including electronics, fabrication, networking, server programming and more. This page documents past workshops, and provides links to notes and resources for anyone who's missed a workshop / would like to follow up.
Workshops are currently every Wednesday, 2-4pm, in PR-B501-02. The subject of each weeks' workshop is announced on Mondays, in the #technical channel on Slack and on the noticeboard by the lifts in Peckham Road.
If you would like to suggest a future workshop (or suggest someone you think should run one) you can do so using this form. The only way to acquire a sticker is to attend a workshop :)
11/10/23: Unix Command Line Programming
Technician: Agnes
The 'command line' (AKA terminal on mac) is a way to interact with your computer using text. To do this workshop on a Windows computer, you will want to install a Unix-type command line (instead of the default Command Prompt), the one I recommend is Git Bash. On mac and linux you don't need anything new.
This workshop was based on the carpentries workshop on the Unix command line, which provides a thorough set of notes to work through. Other interesting links for command line resources include:
- Agnes' collection of interesting command line tools
- Melanie Hoff's Folder Poetry workshop
18/10/23: Intro to Git
Technician: Agnes
This workshop is to introduce git, using the Command Line. This isn't the only way to interact with git, and lots of people at the CCI also like to use Github Desktop. This workshop is based on the carpentries intro to git workshop. If you have a windows computer, you will want to install Git Bash.