Introduction
This course
Idea
- Understand how things work, and what to expect from them
- Acquire skills that help you in the day-to-day work
- How to “end up” with good software
- works for me 👉 works 👉 works well
Format
- Weekly lectures with exercises
- Changing lecturers (Lukas, Flo, Manuel, and Victor)
Passing and grades
- Active participation in the exercises will get you a 2 (“pass”)
- If you want a different grade, you can prepare a presentation for the last lecture date, and we’ll grade that
- We expect attendance in at least 80% of the lectures - contact us if that’s not possible for you
- You will also need 50% of the score for the exercises
The exercises
- We provide exercises at the end of each lecture
- Programming exercises will use python
- You have to hand-in the answers before the next lecture
- We will grade and discuss them one week later
- Starting with lecture 2 submitting will usually be a git merge request, but we’ll explain that next week
The topics
Basic workbench
- The command line
- Git
- Coding environment & tools
- Reproducibility and CI
- Git advanced
Working with code
- Error handling & logging
- Debugging
- Testing
- Refactoring
- User experience design
- Open development
Understanding usage
- Data structures
- Complexity
The students
Who needs a grade?
Who is experienced with git?
Who has used an HPC system before?
Which programming languages do you speak?
- Python
- Fortran
- C/C++
- other
What is missing in our lecture concept?
Course materials
The source of the slides is public
- They are generated using quarto
- Find the source code at https://gitlab.dkrz.de/gss/lecture-materials
- And the generated slides at https://gss.gitlab-pages.dkrz.de/lecture-materials/
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