Best practices in scientific programming

In this section we will learn more about how to write, document and share code.

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Exercise: Software quality indicators

Visit the following github pages and judge if the published open source tools are well documented, sustainably maintained, and openly supported. Would you use them for your science project?

• https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image

• https://github.com/MouseLand/cellpose

• https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-webcam

• https://github.com/RoccoDAnt/napari-zelda

• https://github.com/DragaDoncila/napari-compressed-labels-io

Sharing & licensing

This includes topics such as version control, licensing and copyright.

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Further Reading

If you’re into collaboration and you want to share your code with others or discuss code online with experts, you can check this FocelPlane blog post about Collaborative Script Editing with git