Kevin T. Chu

Independent Research Scientist
Serendipity Research

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Software Development/Programming Resources

Basic Programming References

Stanford CS Education Library -- an excellent resource for introductory to intermediate material on many programming languages and ideas.

Build Tools

Makefiles
- A Nice Tutorial on Make
- A Short Guide to Makefiles

Source Code Management

Mercurial -- a modern distributed version control system
- Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
- Hg Init: a Mercurial Tutorial by Joel Spolsky
- Basic Workflows
Git -- a modern distributed version control system
Subversion -- a last generation of source code management tool that is still widely used
- Subversion Cheat Sheet
- Subversion Notes

Coding Conventions

Python
- Style Guide for Python Code
- Docstring Conventions
JavaScript
- Coding Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language
- JavaScript coding standards

Profiling Code

Introduction to GNU gprof -- a program profiler that is helpful for identifying parts of a program that could be rewritten to improve performance.

Interesting Articles on Software Development

Evidence Based Scheduling by Joel Spolsky
Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it. by Joel Spolsky
Managing Bugs/Issues
- Basics of bug bracking
- Ten tips for bug tracking

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