Programming café

Do you want to meet other programmers at Utrecht University, improve your programming skills, or ask questions related to programming? Pick up your laptop and come to the Programming Café! 

During this informal meet-up we will share knowledge about programming through short presentations, work on programming projects, and help each other with challenges in working with code and data. 

What to expect 

During the Programming Café, you can work on your own project and share knowledge in a community setting. You are also welcome to bring programming questions, bugs, and problems to discuss and resolve with members of RDM Support and others attending the café.  

Each Programming Café consists of 2 parts of 1 hour.

The first hour will feature a special theme. This is typically a short presentation or demonstration of (maximum) one hour. We will start the presentation at around 15:00.

The second hour is "Social coding": from 16:00 onwards you can work on your project or ask questions. Soft drinks and snacks will be provided!

You are warmly invited for both, but joining the either the first or the second hour is also fine!

This months theme: Automating your computations with Snakemake

Do you have a computational workflow that consists of multiple interdependent steps (e.g. in data processing, analysis or modelling)? Do you want to automate your workflow and make your workflow reproducible and scalable? Then Snakemake might be interesting for you! Snakemake helps to automate your workflow in a reproducible way. It can connect to HPC and storage systems (such as YoDa) and allows you to run parts of your workflow in parallel with little effort. In this session of the Programming Café, you will learn about Snakemake, how it works and how to implement Snakemake in your project, whether you're using Python, R, Julia or other languages. Snakemake is based on Python, but no prior Python knowledge is necessary.

To prepare you can install conda (https://conda-forge.org/download/) and Snakemake (https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/installation.html).

You can come by during our walk-in hours (https://www.uu.nl/en/research/research-data-management/workshops/walk-in-hours-research-data-and-software) if you need help with this. Our research engineers will walk around during the programming café to help you transform your workflow.

Who can attend

Everyone is welcome at the Programming Café! You can be of any skill level and at any stage in working with your code and data. We expect most attendees will be R or Python users, but users of other programming languages and software are invited as well.