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Intermediate Research Software Development

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Setting the Scene

Section 1: Setting Up Environment For Collaborative Code Development

1.1 Introduction to Our Software Project

1.2 Virtual Environments For Software Development

1.3 Integrated Software Development Environments

1.4 Software Development Using Git and GitHub

1.5 Python Code Style Conventions

1.6 Verifying Code Style Using Linters

1.7 Optional Exercises

Section 2: Ensuring Correctness of Software at Scale

2.1 Automatically Testing Software

2.2 Scaling Up Unit Testing

2.3 Continuous Integration for Automated Testing

2.4 Diagnosing Issues and Improving Robustness

2.5 Optional Exercises for Section 2

Section 3: Software Development as a Process

3.1 Software Requirements

3.2 Software Architecture and Design

3.3 Code Decoupling & Abstractions

3.4 Code Refactoring

3.5 Software Architecture Revisited

Section 4: Collaborative Software Development for Reuse

4.1 Developing Software In a Team: Code Review

4.2 Preparing Software for Reuse and Release

4.3 Packaging Code for Release and Distribution

Section 5: Managing and Improving Software Over Its Lifetime

5.1 Managing a Collaborative Software Project

5.2 Assessing Software for Suitability and Improvement

5.3 Software Improvement Through Feedback

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Extra Content: Software Architecture
Extra Content: Programming Paradigms
Extra Content: Procedural Programming
Extra Content: Functional Programming
Extra Content: Object Oriented Programming
Extra Content: Persistence
Extra Content: Databases
Extra Content: Using Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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Commit
CSS
Git
GitHub
README
Repository/repo
Version Control
YAML

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