ACENET: Introductory Programming: Unix Shell, Git, and Python

This is a beginner level series that is hands-on, covering the fundamentals of Python including data types, conditional statements, loops and functions, as well as program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. The goal is to teach the practical knowledge needed to start programming, debugging, and using Python in everyday tasks. 

You do not need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

ACENET: Introductory Programming: Unix Shell, Git, and R

Using software-carpentry.org materials this workshop introduces you to the fundamentals of the Unix Shell, Version Control and R. This is a beginner level workshop series that is hands-on, covering the fundamentals of R, including data types, functions, importing, manipulating and analyzing data, and data visualization as well as program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

ACENET: Basics of Computers

Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but it will give you insight to how media, programs, and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration.

ACENET: Modern Fortran for scientific programming

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-modern-fortran-for-scientific-programming-tickets-230928903567

 

Prerequisites: Familiarity with another programming language

Fortran, one of the initial high-level programming languages, continues to be an excellent option for high-performance computing due to its superb performance. The newer versions offer many modern features, including object-oriented programming capabilities to programmers. This course will cover some of these features.

The session will take place on:

UPEI engineering graduates finding personal and professional success close to home

When Peter Doiron showed up in September 2013 for his first day of classes as a UPEI engineering student, he didn’t realize how different his next five years of study would be compared to past graduates.  

“I started here when the program was housed in Dalton Hall and was there for two years in the two rooms that we had,” he says. “When the new facility was completed (in 2016) we got to take on larger projects in spaces for machining, welding, 3-D printing, electrical, and robotics which I really enjoyed.” 

UPEI researchers seek to identify climate-resilient and wart-resistant potato varieties on PEI

A multidisciplinary team at the University of Prince Edward Island made up of experts in climate change, gene sequencing, agriculture diseases, and precision agriculture has received $20,000 in funding from Genome Atlantic for a research project titled “Identification of Climate-Resilient and Wart-Resistant Potato Varieties for PEI.”