Topic outline

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  General

  Best practices in programming

  6-7 July 2022
  

  Zurich
  

  
  

  For any assistance, please contact training@sib.swiss.
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  Prerequisites & course Material

  Knowledge / competencies

  • Working knowledge of one of the following programming languages: R, python, C/C++, java, perl.

  Technical / material

  • Participants should send some extracts of their code at least 2 weeks before the course. Please submit code in your preferred programming language. We will work on this code during the code clinics. The code should run without any problems or elaborate setup and the runtime should be in the range of minutes at most, if possible.

  • Suggestion for a Git cheat sheet
    recommended link for Git on Windows (with a Bash like terminal)
    For Mac & Unix like operating systems, the Git textbook is good enough: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

  
  

  Course material

  All presentations and the git hands-on are available at https://siscourses.ethz.ch/sib_workshop_best_practices/
  
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  Schedule

  First Day (6th of July)
  

  09:00 Welcome coffee

  09:30 General Introduction

  09:45 Lectures (General Principles, Clean Code, git)
  ~12:00 Lunch break
  13:00 Hands-on session (git hands-on and code clinic)***
  

  ~17:00 End of the session

  19:00 Workshop Dinner at Namaste Restaurant
  

  
  ***Coffee break meanwhile

  
  

  Second Day (7th of July)

  09:00 Lecture Automated Code Testing, Lecture Refactoring & hands-on session (code clinic)***
  ~12:00 Lunch break
  13:00 Hands-on session (code clinic)***
  ~16:30 End of the session/workshop
  

  
  ***Coffee break meanwhile

  
  

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