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Smarter Scientific Software Development with GitHub Actions

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center via Coursera

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The course is intended for individuals in the biomedical sciences who wish to make their work more reproducible through the use of automation. It focuses on the basics of continuous integration continuous deployment techniques using the GitHub Actions software. This course is written for individuals who: - Are comfortable with GitHub and know how to make a pull request - Wish to save time and enhance their scientific projects using automation - Have perhaps tried to learn about GitHub Actions before but felt overwhelmed about how to start

Syllabus

  • Welcome to the Course
    • This first module introduces you to the course as well as describes the motivation for why automation should be an essential tool for every scientist who writes code.
  • GitHub Actions in Practice
    • This section gets into hands-on activities to teach how to use GitHub Actions. What is needed to run a GitHub Action and how to interpret them.
  • Troubleshooting and Wrapping up
    • This last module wraps up the course by giving tips for troubleshooting GitHub Actions as well as how to apply this knowledge to your own projects.

Taught by

Candace Savonen, MS and Carrie Wright, PhD

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