This skill provides knowledge about software development best practices that will help scientists to develop high-quality scientific software.

• Analyse the benefits of using an IDE for programming.
• Apply the best practices from software engineering regarding programming and debugging.
• Apply programming best practices in order to develop robust and maintainable programs.
• Distinguish different log levels and apply them to a program.
• Dramatize the handling of exceptions for programs.
• Apply coding standards to a programming project.
• Apply testing procedures to a programming project.
• Demonstrate programming of portable code.

• SD2.1 Integrated Development Environments
• SD2.2 Debugging
• SD2.3 Programming Idioms
• SD2.4 Logging
• SD2.5 Exception Handling
• SD2.6 Coding Standards
• SD2.7 Testing
• SD2.8 Portability