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LinuxMall.com: Hammers, Nails and Code: Software Carpentry Project Builds Open Source Future

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 15, 2000

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“Building a silicon Habitat for Humanity, the Software
Carpentry project uses Python and Open Source ideals to construct a
solid foundation for ideas to develop and thrive.”

“The phrase `computer literate user’ really means the person has
been hurt so many times that the scar tissue is thick enough so he
no longer feels the pain.” This quote from Alan Cooper’s The
Inmates are Running the Asylum is the running theme of sorts for
the Software Carpentry Project.”

“With this theme in heart and tools in hand, the project aims
“to create a new generation of easy-to-use software engineering
tools, and to document both those tools and the working practices
they are meant to support.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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