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

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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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