The Pragmatic Programmer <http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X> is pretty good. It takes view of someone doing for-pay software engineering, which isn't entirely applicable, but many of the basic lessons (don't repeat yourself, use version control, etc.) are very much applicable. It's a short, easy read so probably worthwhile.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj....@gmail.com> wrote: > Many of my students come from a non-CS background, and aren't familiar > with basic ideas of software engineering like modularity, choosing > datastructures, putting code into re-usable functions rather than writing > long copy-and-paste scripts, etcetera. I'd like to point them at a good > book, but I mostly didn't learn this stuff from books and don't know what > is out there. > > Is there a good book on basic software engineering that is easily > applicable to Julia? (This rules out a lot of the "design patterns" style > books that are heavily oriented towards traditional OOP languages.) > > --SGJ >
