Welcome

• These notes are part of a course on software development skills for scientists and engineers being prepared by Greg Wilson for the Python Software Foundation
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Course Outline

• Introduction
• Version Control
• Shell Basics
• More Shell
• Basic Scripting
• Strings, Lists, and Files
• Functions, Libraries, and the File System
• Testing Basics
• Dictionaries and Error Handling
• Debugging
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Structured Unit Testing
• Automated Builds
• Coding Style and Reading Code
• Watching Programs Run
• Regular Expressions
• Basic XML and XHTML
• A Mini-Project
• Client-Side Web Programming
• CGI
• Binary Data
• Relational Databases
• Security
• Teamware
• Extreme Programming
• The ICONIX Process
• The Nevex Process
• Backward, Forward, and Sideways
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Online Resources
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Syllabus
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Acknowledgments

• The Python Software Foundation, for the grant that made this work possible
• The University of Toronto, for letting me test this version of this course on its students
• Its Department of Computer Science, for giving me a home, and making me feel welcome
• Brent Gorda, who helped create the first version of this course
• Heather Mayer, for the artwork
• YesLogic, for generously donating licenses for Prince (their XML-to-PDF converter)
• The many people who commented on this material, and suggested ways to improve it:

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• Frank Willison—I'm sorry this one was finished too late for you to tune up
• John Scopes, and everyone else with the courage to fight for the idea that the truth is more important than doctrine
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