References

Style guides

Style guides for various programming languages.

C

• MISRA C2023

C++

• C++ core guidelines
• Google C++ style guide
• MISRA C++2023

Fortran

• Fortran style guide
• Norman S. Clerman and Walter Spector, "Modern Fortran: style and usage", Cambridge University Press, 2011

Python

• PEP8 Python style guide

R

• tidyverse style guide

Programming language standards

• C standards
• C++ standards
• Fortran standards

Programming languages such as Python and R don't have formal standards.

General best practices

General resources that discuss best practices in software engineering.

• Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike, "The practice of programming", Addison-Wesley, 1999
• Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", Addison Wesley, 1999
• Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralpha Johnson and John Vlissides, "Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software", Addison-Wesley, 1994
• Robert C. Martin, "Clean code: a handbook of agile software craftsmanship", Pearson, 2008

Best practices for scientific computing

• Greg Wilson, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston et al., Good enough practices in scientific computing, PLoS Computational Biology, 13(6):e1005510, 2017
• G. Wilson, D.A. Aruliah, C.T. Browni et al., Best practices for scientific computing, PLoS Biology, 12(1):e1001745, 2014

Software licenses

• Discussion of how to choose an appropriate license on the GNU website.

Scientific software

Some references that are more specific to scientific software development.

• Task Force Sub Group 3 - Review of Software Quality Attributes and Characteristics

Development ecosystem

• The state of the development ecosystem in 2023

Algorithms and data structures

• Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein, "Introduction to algorithms", MIT Press, 2009 (3rd edition)
  • Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, "Algorithms", Addison-Wesley, 2011 (4th edition)
  • Awesome algorithms