Via http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/02/cookie-cutter.html:
"Cookie cutter" projects are quite common — essentially, they are pre-built templates for project that follow some kind of convention for folder structures and basic boilerplate. Examples include cookiecutter <https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter> and Project Template <http://projecttemplate.net/>.
For Software Carpentry, it serves as a way for us to teach our attendees some best practices while showing them the importance of reproducibility and scripts. It also allows a low barrier of entry to actually set up a project folder structure, since re-organizing folders when a project is fully developed will most likely not happen.
If you use cookie cutter project templates of some kind, we'd like to hear about them: please add pointers to this GitHub issue or mail us directly <mailto:[email protected]>.
Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
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