A survey of RSE training resources

This is the source of a https://de-rse.org/learn-and-teach/.

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This repository (and eventually webpage) aims to collect very good resources on teaching and learning RSE skills. Examples include:

• Which university programs could I attend to study and become a professional RSE?
• Which coherent online courses could I follow to build up skills from the set defined in the RSE Competencies?
• What material can I reuse for teaching my students about RSE skills?

We aim for original and extensive resources, targetting both general-purpose RSEs, as well as RSE specializations.

As there is currently some duplication and very little content, don't cofuse this file with the index.md, which is rendered on the website.

How to contribute?

See the contributing guidelines, or open an issue.

If you contribute a pull request, a GitHub Actions workflow will build the website and generate a downloadable artifact, which you can view locally (currently not rendering correctly).

Build this website

Build locally

This project builds on Jekyll, which is a Ruby project. Therefore, you first need to get a Ruby installation.

After that, clone the repository and run make. This will get the dependencies in a local directory and build and serve the website.

Build inside a Docker container

You can directly serve the website from a Docker container (using the community image jekyll/jekyll):

docker run --rm --volume="$PWD:/srv/jekyll:Z" --publish 127.0.0.1:4000:4000 -it jekyll/jekyll jekyll serve

Arguments:

• docker run: The Docker command to run a container from an existing image
• --rm: Automatically remove (or not) the container when it exists
• --volume: Mount the current directory ($PWD) to a directory in the container (/srv/jekyll), so that only the current container can see the content (:Z)
• --publish: Publish the container's port 4000 (where Jekyll serves the website) to the host port 4000. Note that 127.0.0.1 is the localhost in IPv4. For IPv6, you can replace that with [::1].
• -it: Interactive container, capturing signals (such as Ctrl-C).
• jekyll/jekyll: The image
• jekyll serve: The command to run. Somehow, the current default make target does not work in this context.

Visit the local build

See the result in your http://localhost:4000/learn-and-teach.

The same URL holds both for building locally, as well as building inside Docker.