Acknowledgments

Support

• The Python Software Foundation, for the grant that made this work possible
• The University of Toronto, for letting me test this version of this course on its students
• YesLogic and WingIDE for generously donating licenses for Prince (a spiffy XML-to-PDF converter) and Wing (an equally spiffy Python development environment) respectively
• The creators of Apache, Cygwin, DrProject, Firefox, Gnumeric, Make, Python, SQLite, Subversion, and all the other fine open source tools that made this course possible
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Major Contributors

• Greg Wilson, who wrote the first version of these notes
• Brent Gorda, who helped create an early version of this course
• Andrew Lumsdaine and Peter Gottschling, who beta-tested this course in the fall of 2005
• Adam Goucher, who critiqued every lecture in detail
• Nick Discenza, for the diagrams
• Jeff Strunk, and the other good folks at Enthought, for providing a permanent home for this material
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Comments and Corrections

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Nick Barnes	Hossein Bidhendi	Cornelia Boldyreff	Stephane Bortzmeyer
José Brandao-Neto	Titus Brown	Josh Calahan	Guido Carballo
Ralph Corderoy	Jim Cordy	Michelle Craig	Mike Davis
Sean Dawson	Martin de Lasa	Jim DeWees	Tom Diamond
Simon Duane	Paul Dubois	Neil Ernst	Isaac Ezer
Hans Fangohr	Eric Firing	Mike Firth	Karl Fogel
Grig Gheorghiu	Brent Gorda	Peter Gottschling	Adam Goucher
Steve Graham	Steve Graham	Perry Greenfield	Paul Gries
Nick Groll	Alan Grosskurth	Goran Gugic	Danny Heap
Randy Heiland	Michael Hoffman	Jeremy Hoisak	Steve Holden
Frank Horowitz	Bowen Hui	Kent Johnson	Steven Johnson
Calahan Josh	Brandon King	Niels Klitgord	Harald Koch
Ryan Krauss	Deanna Langer	Chris Lasher	Christopher Lenz
Christian Lessig	Catherine Letondal	Michelle Levesque	Yonggang Liu
Vinicius Lobosco	Gary Loescher	Steve Loughran	Stephanie Ludi
Andrew Lumsdaine	Neil MacDonald	Laurie MacDougall	Edoardo Marcora
Ryan Maw	Gary McGraw	Luke McKinney	Christian Meesters
Keir Mierle	Simona Mindy	Ken Miura	Matthew Moelter
Andrew Mole	Kit-Sun Ng	Stephan Nies	Dirkjan Ochtman
Chris Poirier	Victor Putz	Irving Reid	Karen Reid
Michael Rennie	Arnold Rosenbloom	Mario Ruggier	Paul Salvini
Oliver Sander	Herb Schilling	Erich Schwarz	Diomidis Spinellis
Bill Spotz	Boris Steipe	James Stovall	Nick Stuifbergen
Jonathan Taylor	Diane Trout	Nicky Van Foreest	Tom Van Vleck
Jim Vickroy	Kristina Visscher	James White	Peter Wilkinson
Blake Winton	Dave Wortman	Kai Zhuang

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Prior Art

• We didn't know it at the time, but [Hammond 1994] invented the term “software carpentry” several years before this course was conceived
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Dedication

• For Frank Willison—I'm sorry this one was finished too late for you to tune up.
• And for Charles Darwin, John Scopes, and everyone who believes that the truth is more important than doctrine.
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