BCI Research Software Engineering Guide

Contents:

• RSE Best Practices
  • Write code for readability, maintainability, and clarity
  • Write small functions that do one thing, and do that one thing well
  • Don’t assume your code does what you think - test it.
  • Help other users and developers with good documentation
  • IDEs and automatic tools
  • Version Control
  • Language Specific Styles
• Abaqus User Subroutines
  • Fortran Guidelines
  • Using Fortran Modules
  • Free-form Fortran with Abaqus
  • Explicit Typing with Abaqus
  • Using Named State Variables
  • Reading Material Properties from a Namelist File
  • Running Abaqus on HPC
• RSE Guides
  • Getting started with Git