Big redesign to make self learning resource

[drvinceknight]

This will also allow the notes to be more comprehensive.

The syllabus will become something like:

Principles of reproducible computational research.

• Discuss problems related to computational research
• Discuss principles that provide solutions to the above

Using the command line

Using Python (although maybe there is no need for this chapter and can just point at other resources).

Writing software

Tools

• Editors vs IDEs

What is good software?

• Documentation
• Modularisation
• Testing (using a full testing framework)

Further concepts

• Installation and packaging
• Code convention testing
• Type hinting
• Coverage
• Documentation with tools like Sphinx
• Doctesting

Collaboration

• Version control
• Github
• Continuous integration
• Communication (video calling, messaging, working remotely)

Best practices with LaTeX

An appendix with other programming language tooling

[drvinceknight]

@geraintpalmer on slack mentioned:

• semantic versioning

Should be part of installation and packaging.

• citing software and citable software

Should be part of Collaboration

• licenses

Further concepts

[drvinceknight]

Also include a list of other resources.

• @geraintpalmer's Welsh language resources: https://sgiliauymchwilcyfrifiadurol.github.io
• MIT's course: https://missing.csail.mit.edu