Programming Café - 5 March 2026
Do you want to meet other researchers, improve your programming skills, or ask questions related to programming? Pick up your laptop and come to the Programming Café!
During this informal meet-up, we will share knowledge about programming through short presentations, work on programming projects, and help each other with challenges in working with code and data.
What to expect
During the Programming Café, you can work on your own project and share knowledge in a community setting. You can also bring your programming questions, bugs, and problems to resolve or discuss with members of RDM Support and researchers attending the café.
Furthermore, each Programming Café will have a special theme. This is typically a short presentation or demonstration of (maximum) half an hour. We are always looking for suggestions on themes and people who want to present something. Don’t hesitate to send an email to info.rdm@uu.nl if you want to provide a suggestion or give a presentation!
Topic: Debugging like a pro!
Some love it, some hate it, but every programmer regularly needs to do it: finding and solving the mistakes in your own program code. Or, if you are (un)lucky, in someone else's program code. Julian Gonggrijp (developer at the Research Software Lab, Digital Humanities) has been doing this professionally for twelve years and reached level 10. After briefly clarifying what that means, we will take a hands-on dive in his tools with a live debugging session.
If you happen to have a Python script of 300 lines or less with a tough bug and you would like to see it being debugged at level 10, you are invited to send it at least one day in advance to j.gonggrijp@uu.nl. Please be advised that if your code is selected for the session, it will be published on GitHub, unless it is already publicly hosted on Codeberg, GitLab, GitHub or Bitbucket.
Who can attend
Everyone is welcome at the Programming Café! You can be of any skill level and at any stage in working with your code and data. We expect most attendees will be R or Python users, but users of other programming languages and software are invited as well.
Registration
Registrations are not mandatory, but we appreciate them in order to arrange refreshments and snacks. For the same reason, it would be helpful to deregister in case you can no longer attend. You can register using the link at the bottom of this page.
Contact
Can't make it to the Programming Café? You can also come by our weekly Walk-In Hours for all your questions about research data and software, or contact us via info.rdm@uu.nl.
- Start date and time
- End date and time
- Location
- Bucheliuszaal 6.18, Universiteitsbibliotheek (Utrecht Science Park)
- Entrance fee
- Free of charge
- Registration
- More information
- Website RDM Support