References and further reading

Code

SkySim – the example software project developed in the first few lessons of this course

The FAIR guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship (Nature)
Good enough practices in scientific computing (web page) (arxiv pdf)
The research software engineer (RSE) association of Australia and New Zealand (link)
Docstring conventions for python (PEP257)
Project management methodologies (link)
The agile manifesto
The JIRA project management tool
Python Code Quality: Tools & Best Practices (link
Version Control with Git (Software carpentry course)
Issue tracking with GitHub (link)
Git Feature Branch Workflow (link)
The Model-view-controller software design pattern
Python3 virtual environments
Semantic versioning for software projects
Guide to markdown formatting
Guide to reStructuredText formatting
The numpydoc docstring formatting style guide
The sphinx python documentation generator
GitHub actions introduction and documentation

PyCharm (IDE): part of the JetBrains ecosystem. Free academic licence (1yr) if you sign up with your institutional email address.
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) (IDE). An MS product but without all the usual garbage.
Gitbash – a git client for windows
Anaconda – a python environment management system.
Cookiecutter – a project templating system
GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket version control repositories
BASH reference manual
The python package index (pypi)
Read the docs – a free online documentation hosting service
Travis-CI – a continuous integration tool
Zenodo – free and open repository for data, software, papers, and more
The Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL)
ORCiD – a persistent id to connect you to your research outputs