The Carpentries Workbench Resource Guide

three isometric hex badges for The Carpentries Workbench representing the packages sandpaper, pegboard, and varnish. Each badge is styled to look like a tiny workshop working on a wooden carpentries logo with the package namesake highlighted.

The Workbench is an accessible lesson infrastructure built in R

Workbench Beta Phase

The Carpentries Workbench is currently in its Beta Phase an undergoing testing for the broader Carpentries Community including, but not limited to:

Maintainers (Official Lessons)
Lesson Developers (Community-curated Lessons)
Instructors
Trainers
Learners

If you would like to participate in the beta phase, you can

Resources

Guides

Tools

{sandpaper}: User interface and engine for the workbench
{pegboard}: Validation and parsing of lesson components
{varnish}: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript templates
(carpentries/actions): GitHub Actions for Workbench Workflows

Templates

Inspired Examples

These are examples of lessons developed with The Workbench since the initial announcement:

Toby Hodges, Mateusz Kuzak, Aleksandra Nenadic, Sarah Stevens—Collaborative Lesson Development Training
Saranjeet Kuar, Achintya Rao, Heather Turner, Aman Goel—R’s Bug Tracking
Saba Ferdous, David Pérez-Suárez—Learn To Discover—Basic Python (note—this uses a custom fork of sandpaper, and varnish to run python)
Philipp Matthias Schäfer—GitLab Novice
Michael Culshaw-Maurer—Rewrite of the R Ecology Lesson