Hacky Hour

Where & When

Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre - Room 206. Wednesday 10th June from 1:30-3pm.

General coding and project work

There is no tutorial or formal discussion scheduled for this session. Feel free to use this time to catch up on previous SHW sessions, work on your own projects, or brush up your coding skills. We recommend Codecademy, Khan Academy and Coursera to begin with. Examples of projects created by SHW participants can be found here. We generally work to music… (BBC 6 Music)

What we worked on

• Building websites using GitHub Pages.
• Transport modelling using Java, R and QGIS.
• Setting up Git with SourceTree, rather Git for Mac - which is a bit clunky.
• Understanding multi-stage SQL queries for a project.

What we talked about

• Julia programming prep for next week.
• How Git, Mercurial, SourceTree, Git for Mac, GitHub and Bitbucket relate to each other.
• Samara gave some advice about multi-stage SQL database queries for a CTI project and the merits of SourceTree.

This is what Hacky Hour is all about. Helping each other to solve research problems.

Attended by

• Arna Karick, SHW organiser & e-Research Consultant & astro by trade (Swinburne Research)
• Nicole Ronald, Lecturer (Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering)
• Samara Neilson, Research Data Coordinator (Swinburne Research)
• Alex Codoreanu, PhD student (Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing - CAS)
• Till Klein, PhD student (Centre for Transformative Innovation - CTI)