Best Practices in Python Programming

Source repository for the Scientific Software Center course “Best Practices in Python Programming” at Heidelberg University.

Original material by Inga Ulusoy. The current course was developed by Thomas Isensee.

The participant-facing course page is published at https://ssciwr.github.io/Python-best-practices-course/.

Sources of truth

Material	Canonical source
Taught course content	slides/ssciwr-pbp-course.typ
Prerequisite presentation	slides/ssciwr-pbp-course-prerequisites.typ
Written participant setup	PREREQUISITES.md
Exercises and solutions	ssciwr-pbp-assignments
Participant-facing overview	index.md

Build the slides

Install Typst, then run from the repository root:

typst compile --root . --font-path slides/fonts/Source_Sans_3 slides/ssciwr-pbp-course.typ

typst compile --root . --font-path slides/fonts/Source_Sans_3 slides/ssciwr-pbp-course-prerequisites.typ

The GitHub Actions workflow compiles both presentations and deploys the PDFs with the course page to GitHub Pages.

Assignment workflow

Assignment sources and solutions are maintained in the separate assignment repository linked above. Classroom50 creates an individual repository for each participant from the relevant template.

License

The material is released under CC0 1.0 Universal.