Markdown for science and academia – basic formatting
Martin Héroux
Markdown for Science and academia – write and publishing a study note
And here it is after the document has been saved as test_document.md: Gedit applies formatting to highlight the Markdown mark-ups: Adding a title, author and date Now that we have our notes.md file open in our favourite text editor, we can start typing our study note. The first thing to do is provide a title, author and date. We can
Read moreTesting scientific code Part 2: Test driven development
I had the pleasure of having a another interesting and informative chat with Brian Okken on his Test & Code podcast. This time we talk about test driven development, an interesting approach to writing software tests. We also delve into scientific workflows and the reproducibility crisis. Have a listen!
Read moreTesting scientific code
At the end of last year I had the pleasure of talking to Brian Okken about testing scientific code on his podcast Test & Code. In case you missed the episode, it is included below. As you will hear at the end of the episode, Brian invited me back to talk about Test Driven Development, so stay tuned…
Read moreMarkdown for Science and academia – Why?
We write a lot as scientists. We write emails, we write grants, we write presentations, we write papers. We also write a lot as academics. We write lecture notes and slides, we write course outlines, we write tutorials. The tool we use to write these various forms of communication is to some extent up to us, but it also depends
Read morespike2py: a python package to process data collected with spike2
