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Our last sessions for the semester! For a full listing of our training available, see our website. All ACENET sessions are online unless otherwise indicated.

Using Git Tools to Manage File Changes and Collaborate: Version Control
21 November, 1300-1630hrs Atlantic / 1330-1700hrs NL
Version control is the practice of managing and sharing changes to documents, programming code, websites or any other files to keep track of what’s been changed, by whom, when and why. All previous versions of files are saved and you can even revert to a previous version. Git-portal sites, like GitHub or GitLab, offer many useful features to facilitate collaborative development. This is a two-part series. In this beginner level first session, we will show you how to create a repository, record changes to files, explore and restore from the recorded history and how to resolve conflicts (when one member overwrites another’s changes). DETAILS & REGISTER

Using Git Tools to Manage File Changes and Collaborate: Collaboration
28 November, 1300-1630hrs Atlantic / 1330-1700hrs NL
This is the second session of our two-part series. This workshop will focus on collaborative development workflows using Git-collaboration sites like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, and will demonstrate how to work with branches, issue tracking, contribute to projects using pull-/merge-requests, code-review, how to run CI/CD-pipelines and use other common features of these platforms. Prerequisite: basic experience using Git version control, participation in the 21 November workshop, or attendance at the Git lecture of a software carpentry workshop. DETAILS & REGISTER

Visualization with R
29 November, 1300-1500hrs Atlantic / 1330-1530 NL 
When working with large sets of numbers, it is often more useful to display the information graphically using histograms, scatter plots, bar charts, box plots and other depictions. This workshop teaches participants how to gain insights into data through visualization using R as the programming language. Participants will learn how to: create simple scatterplots, histograms, and box plots; compare the plotting features of base R and the ggplot2 package; plot with ggplot2; plot time series data; and arrange and export plots. Basic knowledge of R is recommended, although not mandatory. NOTE: This session is currently full with a waiting list.  DETAILS & REGISTER

ACENET and Get Coding: Introduction to Web Development
6 December, 1330-1630hrs Atlantic, Dalhousie University (in-person, no online option)
Join us for this 3-hour introductory hands-on web development workshop being delivered by Get Coding and ACENET. You will learn the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the building blocks of the web. During the session, you will build a complete personal website with a live link for you to share your work with friends and colleagues. No coding experience is required, and we encourage anyone with an interest in learning to code to register!  DETAILS & REGISTER

From Our Partners

More training sessions can be viewed from our partners at Calcul Québec, Compute Ontario, and for research data management, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.