Many people learn to write computer code by attending short courses, or learning off supervisors or colleagues, then figure things out as they go. As beginner or novice programmers, it is not always easy to work out whether code is well documented or efficient. So it is nice when more experienced users offer advice on good coding practices. A recent
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Many areas of neuroscience require computational techniques to process or analyse data. Some journals including the Nature family of journals and BioMed Central are encouraging investigators to share computer code and programs to improve scientific reproducibility, but these practices are not always adopted. For complex projects with multiple collaborators, it may be unclear what or how much can be shared.
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In the last GitHub tutorial, we created a repository for a project on GitHub then linked this to the project’s folder on our local computer. Linking the repository this way records the version history of our project on the Internet. When we set up the GitHub repository, we used the command line to push the local repository to the GitHub
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We have been tracking along nicely with the tutorials on using Git for version control. So far, the lessons have focused on version controlling documents on a local computer, but another groovy feature of Git is it allows you and your collaborators to version control documents using GitHub. What is GitHub? GitHub is a web-based version control repository and is
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Sometimes when we plot data we want to indicate a relevant feature or have a user select a section of the data. For example, if we record electromyography (EMG) and force signals, we might want to have the user mark the baseline EMG level so that it can be removed, and determine the amount of EMG produced during a maximum
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In the previous lesson we merged the changes we made on our bug_fix_#001 branch into our master branch. Because the bug is now fixed, we have no need to keep the associated branch active. In this lesson we will learn how to close an active branch, as well as start a new, slightly more complicated example using branches. Closing an
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