Beginner tutorials

Contents:

• 1. The Linux terminal
  • 1.1. Tips
  • 1.2. Commonly used commands
  • 1.3. Environmental variables
  • 1.4. Adding program locations to your PATH environmental variable
  • 1.5. Editing terminal start up scripts
  • 1.6. Identifying running processes
  • 1.7. Killing processes
• 2. Programming languages
  • 2.1. Python
  • 2.2. Matlab
• 3. Software development environments
  • 3.1. IDEs
  • 3.2. Using IDEs in containers
• 4. Managing source code
  • 4.1. Version Control
  • 4.2. Educational accounts for Github and Gitkraken
  • 4.3. References
• 5. Documenting software projects
  • 5.1. Writing effective documentation
  • 5.2. Languages
  • 5.3. Documentation generation tools
  • 5.4. Creating new documentation with Sphinx
  • 5.5. Hosting documentation
  • 5.6. Updating documentation
  • 5.7. Documenting source code (TBC)
• 6. Testing code
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Python testing frameworks
• 7. Best practices
  • 7.1. Directory setup
  • 7.2. Development process
  • 7.3. Replicability (TBC)
  • 7.4. Reproducibility (TBC)
  • 7.5. Additional resources