Re: [julia-users] good textbook for Julia software engineering?

2015-10-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:31:49 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > The Pragmatic Programmer > > > is pretty good. It takes view of someone doing for-pay software > engineering, which isn't entirely a

Re: [julia-users] good textbook for Julia software engineering?

2015-10-22 Thread Stefan Karpinski
The Pragmatic Programmer is pretty good. It takes view of someone doing for-pay software engineering, which isn't entirely applicable, but many of the basic lessons (don't repeat yourself, use version control, etc.) ar

[julia-users] good textbook for Julia software engineering?

2015-10-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Many of my students come from a non-CS background, and aren't familiar with basic ideas of software engineering like modularity, choosing datastructures, putting code into re-usable functions rather than writing long copy-and-paste scripts, etcetera. I'd like to point them at a good book, but