Software Writing Skills for Your Research 
- Workshop for Proficient - 
December 14-16, 2015 
Location: Helmholtz Centre Potsdam ­ GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany (​directions​) 
Building:  A27 (Großer Refraktor / GeoLab, ​map​) 
 
Instructors: Martin Callaghan, University of Leeds, UK 
Edwin van der Helm, Leiden University, The Netherlands 
Speakers: Lidia Stępińska­Ustasiak, University of Warsaw, Poland 
Organizers: Martin Hammitzsch, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany 
 
About 
See ​http://www.gfz­potsdam.de/?id=5097​ for information about this workshop. 
Material 
The material for the different lessons is available online at following locations: 
● Recap on shell scripting and advanced techniques 
○ https://github.com/vdhelm/teaching/blob/master/bash_intro.sh 
○ https://github.com/callaghanmt/shell­training 
● Profiling and debugging your Python codes 
○ https://github.com/callaghanmt/sc­leeds­profiling 
● Unit testing 
○ http://katyhuff.github.io/python­testing/ 
● Making your code run faster 
○ https://github.com/vdhelm/teaching/blob/master/Numpy.ipynb 
○ https://github.com/callaghanmt/numba_cy/tree/master/cython 
● Creating and managing packages and modules 
○ https://github.com/callaghanmt/mod_package 
● Advanced data visualisation 
○ http://isakiko.github.io/D3­visualising­data/ 
● The power of object oriented programming 
○ https://github.com/vdhelm/teaching/blob/master/OOP.ipynb 
● Automation and Make 
○ http://swcarpentry.github.io/make­novice/ 
Recordings 
The lessons of the workshop were recorded. The recordings were collected in a playlist and are 
available on YouTube at ​https://goo.gl/txDsnc​.