Code clubs are initiatives where people meet to improve their coding skills and help each other out. I am a big fan of them as I believe that they can help improving the quality of research. Because as we all know: Better Software, Better Research. |
I recently learned more about the code club at the Max Planck Institue of Psychiatry (MPIP) in Munich and would like to share how they organize it in the hopes that it might inspire you. Thanks to the organizers Vera Karlbauer and Jonas Hagenberg for helping me write this post. CodeClub at MPIPTarget audience: researchers who use code but may have quite varying programming skills (from wet-lab scientists to bioinformaticians). Goal: increase the quality of their research software and code scripts for better reproducibility and fewer errors. Structure: Meetings: 1x per month, ca. 1h Format:
Code Review:
Implementation:
Organizers: Two PhD students (currently Vera and Jonas). They recruit a new candidate from the attending students when one of the two PhD students graduates. Implementing a code club can be challenging. In their talk, Vera and Jonas mentioned the problems, but they also found some solutions:
Other code clubsThere are many similar initiatives and quite some useful resources. Here is a list of a bunch of them. Please check them out and consider starting join a code club or even starting one ;)
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