So in my undergraduate teaching we already use Git (which after a little pain they get to really enjoy - the easiest way is to make them work on collaborative projects) but after reading that I will be encouraging the use of the style guide and pylint (just working out how to use it myself).
A formal onboarding process (that we can agree on across groups and roll into teaching) is probably a very good thing. Avoiding Hobgoblins of course. ..d Dr David Martin Lecturer in Bioinformatics College of Life Sciences University of Dundee ________________________________________ From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Marianne Corvellec <[email protected]> Sent: 02 May 2016 21:00 To: Neil Chue Hong (SSI) Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion Subject: Re: [Discuss] "Stealing Google's coding practices for academia" Thanks, Titus! That was a long but amazing read. My personal favourites: """ - Fix bugs, everyone gets epsilon happier. - What? You're an academic research group that doesn't have a formal onboarding process? - I have a hypothesis that better testing might make it substantially easier to have summer interns or short-term undergrads work in your group. """ On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for passing it on - that's one of the best "how to actually use > this stuff without it getting in the way of what you're trying to do" > posts I've seen in a while. > > Neil > > On 30 April 2016 at 14:18, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Have people seen this? I didn’t see it make the rounds, but it’s one of the >> nicest meso-depth writeups on what to do in your lab I’ve seen -- >> >> http://da-data.blogspot.com/2016/04/stealing-googles-coding-practices-for.html >> >> cheers, >> —titus >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > -- > Neil Chue Hong > Director, Software Sustainability Institute > EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK > Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5957 > http://www.software.ac.uk/ > > LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilchuehong > Twitter: http://twitter.com/npch > ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
