Our Lessons Have Now Been Published

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

It's been a long time coming, but we have finally published Version 5.3 of our core lessons. Please cite them as:

• Daisie Huang and Ivan Gonzalez (eds): Software Carpentry: Version Control with Git Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.23544.

• Doug Latornell (ed): Software Carpentry: Version Control with Mercurial Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.27349.

• Ashwin Srinath and Isabell Kiral-Kornek (eds): Software Carpentry: Programming with MATLAB Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.27350.

• Azalee Bostroem and Trevor Bekolay (eds): Software Carpentry: Programming with Python Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.27351.

• John Blischak and Denis Haine (eds): Software Carpentry: Programming with R Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.27353.

• Gabriel Devenyi and Christina Koch (eds): Software Carpentry: The Unix Shell Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.27355.

• Abigail Cabunoc and Sheldon McKay (eds): Software Carpentry: Using Databases and SQL Software Carpentry Foundation, Version 5.3, May 2015, 10.5281/zenodo.27356.

The contributors to each lesson are listed in the Zenodo record as authors, in alphabetical order by surname. Unfortunately, this means that the automatically-generated "Cite as" on their Zenodo pages doesn't match what's above: as previously noted, bibliographic systems don't recognize lessons as a first-class type, and don't yet accommodate common open source conventions like maintainers.

But that's just grumbling. 185 people have contributed in various ways to these seven lessons, and we should be very proud both of what we have created and of the trail we're blazing.