Resources

This page contains resources intended to guide the practitioner from writing basic scripts to maintaining production-ready software.

Programming Languages

• The Python Tutorial - the official, beginner-friendly walkthrough of the language

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - a free, practical introduction aimed at non-programmers

• Real Python - tutorials ranging from basics to advanced topics

• R for Data Science - the standard modern introduction to R

• An Introduction to R - CRAN’s own reference manual

Git & GitHub

• Git Handbook - GitHub’s introduction to how Git works

• Pro Git - the free, comprehensive Git book

Documentation

• Sphinx - the documentation generator used to build this site

• Read the Docs - free hosting for project documentation

• roxygen2 - in-source documentation for R packages

Software engineering practices

• Semantic Versioning - a standard convention for versioning released software

• pytest documentation - the standard Python testing framework

• testthat - the standard R testing framework

• Python Packaging User Guide - how to structure, build, and publish a Python package

• R Packages (2nd edition) - Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan’s guide to building R packages

• GitHub Actions documentation - CI/CD directly from a GitHub repository

• PEP 8 - the standard Python style guide