General Coding for Research

Scientific Computing with Python by Brad Nelson
- Tutorial based book about basics of using Python for scientific computing, including overviews and implementation of Python functions and common algorithms.
- Good for beginners new to Python and coding for research.
The Good Research Code Handbook
- This handbook is for grad students, postdocs and PIs who do a lot of programming as part of their research. It teaches you how to organize your code so that it is easy to understand and works reliably.
- Good for people who have some coding experience but want to improve their coding practices.
Better Code, Better Science by Russ Poldrack
- Brief summaries of best practices for research coding in research, including version control, testing, and documentation.
- Less implementation focused, more about theory and big ideas from software engineering that can and should be applied for research.
- Good for people who have intermediate coding experience and want to apply software engineering principles.