Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive

Authors:
Greg Wilson
Affiliations:
University of Toronto
Venue:
Computing in Science and Engineering
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In 2005, I taught a course on basic software development skills to 37 graduate students at the University of Toronto. Fourteen were studying computer science; the rest were in physics, the life sciences, mechanical and civil engineering, and other disciplines. Only four of the students used a version-control system when the course started, and only two of those were from computer science. Only one (a physicist working on a multinational collaboration) tested his software as a matter of routine; none used any kind of code-checking tools.