Course on version control, clean code and documentation

Training materials and slides for a course on version control, clean code and documentation with practical examples and exercises in Python and R.

Creator

These materials were created by the University of Basel’s Research and Infrastructure Support RISE (rise@unibas.ch) in 2024 and 2025.

File structure

The file structure mirrors the outline of the course:

• Introduction in course/intro
• Introduction to Git in course/git
• Introduction to documentation with examples from Python in course/docs
• Version control and documentation with GitHub in course/github.
• Clean code in context in course/clean_code_in_context

Upcoming and past course dates

• 2025-03-03, 2025-02-10 and 2025-02 12: course “Clean Code, Documentation & Version Control”, WWZ / S16 / Peter Merian-Weg 6, Basel, course details
• 2024-04-10, 2024-04-11 and 2024-04-13: course “Clean Code, Documentation & Version Control”, WWZ / S16 / Peter Merian-Weg 6, Basel, course details

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.