User:Timothee Flutre/Notebook/Postdoc/2012/05/16: Difference between revisions

From OpenWetWare
Jump to navigationJump to search
(→‎About programming: add -N to help2man)
(→‎About programming: add myreadme.org)
(2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 13: Line 13:
** my own page on [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Timothee_Flutre/Notebook/Postdoc/2011/11/07 R]
** my own page on [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Timothee_Flutre/Notebook/Postdoc/2011/11/07 R]
** [http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ C++ tutorial], a must-read (and a [http://www.mycplus.com/featured-articles/best-free-programming-courses-online/ list] of the best free C/C++ resources online)
** [http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ C++ tutorial], a must-read (and a [http://www.mycplus.com/featured-articles/best-free-programming-courses-online/ list] of the best free C/C++ resources online)
** Python tutorials: for [http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/index.htm everyone], [http://scipy-lectures.github.io/ scientists], [http://www.jchr.be/python/manuel.htm in French]
** Python tutorials: for [http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/index.htm everyone] ([http://anandology.com/python-practice-book/index.html another]), [http://scipy-lectures.github.io/ scientists] ([http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~raoulb/teaching/PythonTutorial/index.html another]), [http://www.jchr.be/python/manuel.htm in French]
** [http://resrc.io/list/10/list-of-free-programming-books/ list] of free programming books
** [http://resrc.io/list/10/list-of-free-programming-books/ list] of free programming books


Line 22: Line 22:
** '''Bash''': download the file [http://github.com/timflutre/quantgen/blob/master/myprogram.bash myprogram.bash]
** '''Bash''': download the file [http://github.com/timflutre/quantgen/blob/master/myprogram.bash myprogram.bash]
** '''Latex-Beamer''': download the file [http://github.com/timflutre/quantgen/blob/master/myslides.tex myslides.tex]
** '''Latex-Beamer''': download the file [http://github.com/timflutre/quantgen/blob/master/myslides.tex myslides.tex]
** '''org-mode''': download the file [http://github.com/timflutre/quantgen/blob/master/myreadme.org myreadme.org]


* '''Language-independent user documentation''': I'm a firm believer that it is necessary to add some user documentation, even  minimal, to any program. An easy way to do this is to simply generate such documentation from the "help" message, as long as it is "properly" formatted (see [http://www.gnu.org/s/help2man/ help2man]). The following commands work for any programming language:
* '''Language-independent user documentation''': I'm a firm believer that it is necessary to add some user documentation, even  minimal, to any program. An easy way to do this is to simply generate such documentation from the "help" message, as long as it is "properly" formatted (see [http://www.gnu.org/s/help2man/ help2man]). The following commands work for any programming language:

Revision as of 10:35, 17 August 2014

Project name <html><img src="/images/9/94/Report.png" border="0" /></html> Main project page
<html><img src="/images/c/c3/Resultset_previous.png" border="0" /></html>Previous entry<html>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</html>Next entry<html><img src="/images/5/5c/Resultset_next.png" border="0" /></html>

About programming

  • Templates: it is always rewarding on the long term to start any piece of computer software with a minimum amount of generic code (command-line options, help message, license, usage of gzipped files, running time, etc). But it's a pain to write all this every time, right? And often we know how to do something in one language but not in another. So below are my typical templates for any C++/Python/R/Bash program, as well as Beamer presentation.
  • Language-independent user documentation: I'm a firm believer that it is necessary to add some user documentation, even minimal, to any program. An easy way to do this is to simply generate such documentation from the "help" message, as long as it is "properly" formatted (see help2man). The following commands work for any programming language:
help2man -N -o myprogram.man ./myprogram
man ./myprogram.man
groff -mandoc myprogram.man > myprogram.ps
ps2pdf myprogram.ps myprogram.pdf


Retrieved from "https://openwetware.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Timothee_Flutre/Notebook/Postdoc/2012/05/16&oldid=807666"