[julia-users] good textbook for Julia software engineering?

[Steven G. Johnson]

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

Re: [julia-users] good textbook for Julia software engineering?

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:31:49 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> The Pragmatic Programmer 
> 
>  
> 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.
>

Thanks, Stefan, that sounds perfect.