Damn the Torpedoes (but I could use some help navigating)
This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.
Despite my own calculations (which were optimistic to begin with, and are more so now that I have a new job), I'm going to try to turn Software Carpentry into a book. Here's what's I'm planning to include, and its presesnt status; I would be very grateful for feedback, especially from alumni, about what doesn't need to be here, and what's missing. I think I'm still overshooting the knowledge and needs of far too many people; if you think so too, please let me know.
| Status codes: | done | partial | undone |
| Total | 129623 | ||
| The Shell | 12709 | ||
| Databases | 9778 | ||
| Regular Expressions | 7987 | ||
| Performance | 7590 | ||
| Sets and Dictionaries | 7566 | ||
| Software Engineering | 6378 | ||
| Matrix Programming | 6232 | ||
| Make | 5389 | ||
| Phylogenetic Tree Example | 1652 | ||
| Invasion Percolation Example | 1276 | ||
| Spreadsheets | 3893 | ||
| Configuring Programs | 2126 | ||
| Tracking Provenance | 1786 | ||
| Version Control | 6569 | ||
| Persistence | 5978 | ||
| XML | 5957 | ||
| Functions and Libraries | 5335 | ||
| Testing | 4501 | ||
| Images and Sound | 3720 | ||
| Web Programming | 3372 | ||
| Data Types and Data Management | 2823 | ||
| Parallel Programming | 905 | ||
| Security | 318 | ||
| Lists, Loops, and Conditionals | 79 | ||
| Systems Programming | 45 | ||
| Objects and Classes | 45 | ||
| Building GUIs | 24 | ||