Course introduction
Figure 1
JSON data file snippet showing EVA/spacewalk
data including EVA id, country, crew members, vehicle type, date of the
spacewalk, duration, and purpose)
Figure 2
A first few lines of a Python script
Better start with a software project
Figure 1
Software development lifecycle with Git
Figure 2
Git - distributed version control system, image
from W3Docs (freely available)
Figure 3
Creating a new GitHub repository
Figure 4
Naming the GitHub repository
Figure 5
Complete GitHub repository
creation
Figure 6
Copy the commands to sync the local and
remote repositories
Reproducible software environments
Figure 1
We can visualise the use of virtual environments for different Python
projects on the same machine as follows: 
Code readability
Code structure
Code correctness
Software documentation
Open software management & collaboration
Figure 1
Wrap-up
Figure 1
An image of a Chinese proverb “The best time to
plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now” by CCNULL,
used under a CC-BY 2.0 licence
Figure 2
Helping your team, image from RSECon2024, used
under CC BY 4.0
Figure 3
Helping your peers, image from RSECon2024, used
under CC BY 4.0
Figure 4
Helping the world, image from RSECon2024, used
under CC BY 4.0