# SD2 Programming Best Practices

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

## Learning Outcomes

* 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.

## Subskills

* [[skill-tree:sd:2:1:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:2:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:3:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:4:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:5:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:6:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:7:b]]
* [[skill-tree:sd:2:8:b]]