Plasma Hack Week: Resources

This page contains internet resources that are likely to be helpful to Hack Week participants. For a good general resource on writing software for plasma science, we recommend Research software engineering with Python.

Version control

• git and GitHub tutorial
• GitHub Guides

Python

• Official Python documentation (including a Python tutorial)
• PEP 8 style guide for Python
• Python Tutorial for Beginners

Testing Python software

• pytest
• Learn pytest in 60 minutes

Writing Python documentation

• Getting started with Sphinx

Best practices

• Best practices for scientific computing and its prequel Good enough practices in scientific computing
• Writing clean scientific software
• Choose an open source license
• How to cite software

Scientific Python packages

• NumPy
• SciPy
• matplotlib
• pandas
• xarray
• Astropy

Plasma software

• PlasmaPy
• OMFIT
• BOUT++
• GKEYLL
• SunPy
• TurboPy
• OMAS