Software Carpentry's Scope

Martin Jones' Python for Biologists, Lorena Barba's CFD tutorial, and Nikolay Koldunov's lessons on geosciences shouldn't need to explain what loops are or how to write functions. Instead, they should be able to point to or include our explanations somehow so they can spend their time covering specialized topics that we don't. How they should do this, and how we can help without getting lost in over-engineering and the Semantic Web, are questions for our tooling and metadata discussion threads—we hope you'll join us there.