[ancaster]

I used to volunteer with Software Carpentry to teach and create lessons. Wonderful project, and so, so needed as many researchers (eg grad students) never get to properly learn fundamental data crunching skills and instead bumble along with poorly crafted spreadsheets and lots of cutting and pasting.

[JoeyBananas]

As someone who has seen what "research quality" software looks like, I can see the need for this