Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Git and GitHub
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3936-24-00-00	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 22/04/2024

Date and time	22.05.2024, at: 09:00 - 15:30
Regular seats	15
Course fee	1,680.00 kr.
Lecturers	Anders Krogh
ECTS credits	0.70

Contact person	Henrike Zschach E-mail address: henrike.zschach@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Backup their work regularly and with low effort 2. Know about version control, branching, and resolving conflicts in git 3. Use the command line to interact with GitHub, including creating repositories, updating their local copy from the remote repo and pushing their changes to remote 4. Understand how to edit, improve and maintain scripts with multiple contributors Content The course will introduce the version control language git and the online platform GitHub, which implements git to provide a framework for backup and version control of digital work such as scripts, as well as a popular platform for collaboration and dissemination of scientific software. It will provide an overview of the fundamental functionalities of git and GitHub and how to access them both via the graphical web interface as well as the command line. Participants The course is intended for PhD students at SUND who are interested in learning how to use git for version control, backup and as a collaboration platform. The course requires basic knowledge of using the Unix command line e.g. creating and moving files, copying and downloading. It is specifically targeted towards medical and biological researchers who are looking to strengthen their computational skills, though PhD students from all disciplines are welcome. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: - All graduate programmes Language English Form This 1-day course is a combination of lectures and exercise sessions. Course director Anders Krogh, Professor, Head of Center for Health Data Science, Center for Health Data Science, anders.krogh@sund.ku.dk Teachers Jonas Andreas Sibbesen PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Health Data Science. jonas.sibbesen@sund.ku.dk Diana Andrejeva, PhD, Data Scientist, Center for Health Data Science, andrejeva@sund.ku.dk Henrike Zschach, PhD, Data Scientist, Center for Health Data Science, henrike.zschach@sund.ku.dk Dates 22 May 2024 Course location Room to be announced Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Panum, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København Registration Please register before Friday, 22nd of April 2024 Expected frequency The course is intended to be run at least once a year, we are planning to have a possible new session in Summer. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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