I am running introductory courses to programming and digital literacy for students, both as one-off Software Carpentry workshops and, soon, part of an international master course. During the last few sessions questions of using generative AI for programming have come up. The Carpentries have started to consult the community on …

On four mornings during the last two weeks of May, 2023 we ran a Software Carpentry Workshop covering the Unix Shell, Plotting and Programming with Python and the Version Control with Git lessons. This was the first in-person workshop since before the pandemic. It was also the first time for …