Skill: Programming

Writing code using the knowledge of programming languages - understanding syntax, algorithms, code and data structures.

Related skills

• Computational scientific workflows (data pipelines)
• Data analysis
• Data visualisation

Learning resources

• Building Better Research Software - Software Carpentry
• Introduction to good practices in research software development by the Carpentries - The Carpentries
• Scientific Python Development Guide - Scientific Python Library Development Guide

Tools

• Bash
• IDE
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Makefiles
• NumPy
• Pandas
• RStudio

Languages

• C
• C#
• C++
• Fortran
• Java
• JavaScript
• Julia
• LISP
• MATLAB
• Pascal
• PROLOG
• Python
• R
• Ruby
• Rust
• SCALA
• TypeScript

Methodologies

• Algorithms
• Shell scripting