CarpentryCon @ Home: Native Scripting in Windows: the Command Prompt Interface
Channel: The Carpentries
Date: 2020-08-03

Software Carpentry focuses on task automation and proposes Bash shell as an effective tool to this end. However, in Windows it is not a native tool and it can lead to problems with software designed primarily for Windows (many scriptable engineering packages are such). However, there exists a native tool with capabilities comparable to that of the shell. Learning how to effectively use the command prompt would provide attendees with a technical skill very interesting to the engineering community at large. This in turn would help grow the interest in The Carpentries workshops and, in a wider perspective, the diffusion of Open Science practices in the engineering community.

Etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/cchome-windows-scripting
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Luca Di Stasio is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Solid Mechanics at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. He is a Professional Engineer (Italian License, 2013) and completed a Ph.D. in Polymeric Composite Materials at Luleå University of Technology (2019) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science at Université de Lorraine (2019). To know more about him visit http://www.lucadistasioengineering.com.