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Visual Reactive Programming with Bonsai

This training course will introduce you to the basic concepts of data acquisition and behavioural control using the Bonsai{:target="_blank"} visual programming language.

Course Schedule

	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Lecture	Introduction to Bonsai	Reactive Operators	Higher Order Operators	Extending Bonsai
Tutorial	Visual environments	Closed-loop experiments	Subjects Projects	Scripting Projects

Day 1 - Introduction to Bonsai

• Introduction to Bonsai: what is visual reactive programming?
• Marble diagrams and how to read them
• Creating and controlling visual environments with BonVision{:target="_blank"}
• Learning your way around the IDE

Day 2 - Designing behavior tasks

• Fundamental reactive operators
• Modeling trial sequences: states, events, and side-effects
• How to measure almost anything with Bonsai
• Logging stimulus and response outcomes
• Continuous and conditional feedback: closed-loop experiment building blocks
• Real-time markerless pose tracking using Bonsai + SLEAP{:target="_blank"}

Day 3 - Managing complex workflows

• Sharing observable sequences
• Higher-order reactive operators
• Include workflows and workflow design guidelines
• Creating dynamic observable sequences with higher-order operators
• Interfacing Bonsai with Python

Day 4 - Extending Bonsai

• How to extend Bonsai with scripting
• Reproducible deployment and versioning of experiments
• Debugging your own scripts and workflows
• Bonsai hackathon