Developer’s Guide to Maintaining/ Extending SCTA¶

Prerequisites

We recommend a development environment that includes package control and version control:

git

anaconda

You should clone the SCTA-dev Anaconda environment. Follow The Easy Way: Cloning our SCTA Environment tutorial, but use the SCTA-dev-environment.yml file instead.

To contribute to the source code, you need a basic understanding of Python packages, debug tools, and test frameworks:

import

logging

unittest

nosetests

Most importantly, you need VERY GOOD documentation practices and naming conventions:

docstrings

naming

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