Establishing a Community of Practice

CCBR Code Club

Aug 26, 2025

Agenda

  • Establishing a Community of Practice with Code Clubs
  • Tutorial on building docker containers

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Recap

Journal club in February 2025

Recap

The improvement process in software dev is like rock climbing

Journal club for code

Just like a regular journal club seminar helps scientists keep up with the literature in their field, code club helps computational scientists keep up with best practices in software development.

Hagan et al. 2020. PLOS Comp Biol.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008119

Code Club as a community of practice

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.

Wenger-Trayner, E. and Wenger-Trayner, B. 2015.

https://www.wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice.

Goals of Code Club

  • Adopt good practices in software development
  • Improve the quality of our code
  • Learn from each other
  • Focus on CCBR-specific practices, ways of working

Formats for code club

  • Traditional powerpoint slides
  • Live demos
  • Hands-on activities
  • Peer code review

Experimentation is encouraged!

Resource Sharing

Code Club resources can be shared in the CCBR HowTos repo.

  • presentation slides
  • tutorial documents
  • links for further learning

https://github.com/CCBR/HowTos

Discussion

Questions, comments, suggestions?

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