Tilburg University Coding Café

Do you want to learn how to write better code? Finally learn version control? Make your code more robust? Figure out how to smoothly write software within teams? Then the Coding Café might just be your cup of tea!

The Coding Café is an informal meetup where researchers get together and talk research software! As a community, we will exchange our experiences, challenges, and best practices. The Coding Café is an established format in universities around the country. Inspired by its success, we decided to host our own sessions as well.

And what would be a coding session without a good snack? To keep all your coding brain cells fueled, we will provide a selection of freshly delivered pizza.

Setup

The Coding Café is a local implementation of the CAFE playbook. Our sessions have one coding concept that is put in the spotlight. You will learn all you need to get started in a short presentation. After that, you get to practice what you've learned hands-on!

Participants are also welcome to stray off and find some peers to take a look at your own code. It's all FAIR game! For example, they can bring their own programming questions, conundrums, and pesky bugs to discuss and (hopefully) resolve with the help of the community!

Quick info

Type of instruction: Community lunch meetup
Time: 11:00 - 13:00 hrs
Preparation: Bring your own laptop

Who can attend?

The Coding Café is open to all researchers (including PhDs), support staff and student assistants. Whether you have never written a line of code in your life or have published a dozen packages on CRAN or PyPI, everyone is welcome.

Materials

This registered entry connects to a GitLab group where we collect the materials from the invited talks of past sessions. The licenses vary per contribution and can be found there.

Funding

From July 2024 to August 2025, the Coding Café has been funded by the Netherlands eScienceCenter within their Fellowship program. The invited talks were held by amazing engineers and teachers from there as well! Thanks so much for making this possible!