https://github.com/gvwilson/rsdx

Research Software Design by Example
https://github.com/gvwilson/rsdx

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Research Software Design by Example

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gvwilson/rsdx
• Owner: gvwilson
• License: other
• Created: 2023-10-27T15:16:19.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-20T15:49:26.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-20T21:44:23.998Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://gvwilson.github.io/rsdx/
• Size: 7 MB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.md
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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# Research Software Design by Example



  


    

  

  


When I first began working with scientists

I was puzzled by how little they knew about programming.

I soon realized that they knew far more about it

than I did about galaxy formation,

quantum chemistry,

or protein folding,

and that the principal reason they didn't know more was that

people like me had never taught them.

It took me a longer to understand that

many of the practices I was pushing them to adopt

were a poor fit for their actual problems:

branches in version control aren't designed to manage

dozens of experimental variations on a machine learning algorithm,

and it's hard to write unit tests

when no-one in the world knows what the correct answer is

This tutorial is my latest attempt to teach

a few of the things that I am sure are useful.

If you have suggestions or would like to contribute,

please [get in touch](./CONTRIBUTING.md).