Learning to Use More Than a Hammer: A Review of the Software Carpentry Workshop

There's an old saying that when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I know, it's cliched and painfully overused, but stay with me here. In the world of working with scientific data, and processing data using a computer and a programming environment, this--cliched or not--is the situation many young scientists find themselves in.