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Research practices / Coding standards #62

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sjshim opened this issue Apr 19, 2024 · 3 comments
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Research practices / Coding standards #62

sjshim opened this issue Apr 19, 2024 · 3 comments

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@sjshim
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sjshim commented Apr 19, 2024

  • is python the preferred language?
  • adding more tutorial resources?
  • example of code that can be linked?
  • tutorial / section about testing code (pytest etc.)
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sjshim commented Apr 19, 2024

guidance on using GPT?

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is python the preferred language?

IMO it's worth saying that Python is the most prevalent language, but some tasks are much better suited to R, especially on the side of statistics.

If we don't want to take a stand on "This is a Python lab" (and I don't think we should, but we kind of are and it's up to Russ to decide if that's official) it might be good to take one on "We use freely available, open source tools whenever possible."

tutorial / section about testing code (pytest etc.)

FWIW I have a presentation from some years ago: https://effigies.github.io/testing-scientific-software/

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I agree - we should use whatever language makes the most sense given the particular problem. they should be open source languages (ie. no MATLAB or Stata) but I don't want to otherwise restrict what people use to do their work.

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