PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Zena Lapp AU - Kelly L. Sovacool AU - Nick Lesniak AU - Dana King AU - Catherine Barnier AU - Matthew Flickinger AU - Jule Krüger AU - Courtney R. Armour AU - Maya M. Lapp AU - Jason Tallant AU - Rucheng Diao AU - Morgan Oneka AU - Sarah Tomkovich AU - Jacqueline Moltzau Anderson AU - Sarah K. Lucas AU - Patrick D. Schloss TI - Developing and deploying an integrated workshop curriculum teaching computational skills for reproducible research AID - 10.1101/2021.06.15.448091 DP - 2021 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 2021.06.15.448091 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/06/16/2021.06.15.448091.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/06/16/2021.06.15.448091.full AB - Inspired by well-established material and pedagogy provided by The Carpentries (Wilson 2016), we developed a two-day workshop curriculum that teaches introductory R programming for managing, analyzing, plotting and reporting data using packages from the tidyverse (Wickham et al. 2019), the Unix shell, version control with git, and GitHub. While the official Software Carpentry curriculum is comprehensive, we found that it contains too much content for a two-day workshop. We also felt that the independent nature of the lessons left learners confused about how to integrate the newly acquired programming skills in their own work. Thus, we developed a new curriculum that aims to teach novices how to implement reproducible research principles in their own data analysis. The curriculum integrates live coding lessons with individual-level and group-based practice exercises, and also serves as a succinct resource that learners can reference both during and after the workshop. Moreover, it lowers the entry barrier for new instructors as they do not have to develop their own teaching materials or sift through extensive content. We developed this curriculum during a two-day sprint, successfully used it to host a two-day virtual workshop with almost 40 participants, and updated the material based on instructor and learner feedback. We hope that our new curriculum will prove useful to future instructors interested in teaching workshops with similar learning objectives.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.