Best practices in programming - October 2014
Topic outline
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Best practices in programming
Location: Biozentrum, Basel
Dates: 21-22 October 2014
Overview
The course will focus on learning and internalizing the practices of unit testing, refactoring, and version control through hands-on experience. The first morning will start with an introduction into these concepts and tools used to support them. In the afternoon, we will transition to a code clinic and work together in small groups applying these practices to make improvements to code brought by participants. The second day will continue with the code clinic.
Course objectives
This course will help you avoiding the most common mistakes in the process of writing software in a scientific context and improve the quality of your code.
The focus of this course is not object-oriented programming, software architecture, design patterns or algorithms. The goal of this course is to introduce skills and techniques for effectively developing software.Target audience
If the answer to two or more of the following questions is “yes”, then this course is for you.
- Do you write software to analyze data or implement in-silico models as part of your daily work?
- Do you write scientific publications based on software you created yourself but do not know what unit testing, refactoring or version control are?
- Are you writing code that you find hard to understand some weeks later?
- Do you have thousands of lines of code, but no automated way of verifying that the code works correctly?
- Do you find yourself regularly using “copy & paste” to re-use code you wrote earlier?
- Do small changes in your code later cause trouble in other unexpected places?Requirements
Tutors
Franz-Josef Elmer, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Bernd Rinn, Rok Roskar, Uwe Schmitt, Jakub Straszewski
Location
Application
Applications are closed.
Please note that the participation to this workshop costs Frs 50.- to cover material and coffee breaks. Participants from non-academic institutions should contact us.Deadline for applications and cancellation is set to the 14 October 2014.
Additional information
No exam is planned.
You are welcome to register to the SIB courses mailing-list to be informed of all future courses and workshops, as well as all important deadlines using the form here.
For more information, please contact training@isb-sib.ch.
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Important note: participants must bring their own computers
Schedule
First Day
10h - Welcome talk & start with the coffee
10:15 General Programming Principles (Kuba)
10:45 Unit Testing (Uwe)
11:15 break without coffee
11:30 Refactoring (FJE)
12:00 Git (Rok)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Code clinic
15:30 - coffee break
15:45 Code clinic
18:00 free time
Second Day
9:00 Code Clinic
10h30 Coffee break
10:45 Code Clinic
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Code Clinic
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Code Clinic