Acknowledgements

This edition of Programming Practices is based on the previous versions of the course:

• 2017 edition, by Lachlan Deer, Adrian Etter, Julian Langer & Max Winkler
• 2018 edition, by Ulrich Bergmann, Ursina Schaede, Dora Simon, Carlo Zanella & Christian Zuend
• 2019 Foundations edition, by Lachlan Deer & Julian Langer
• 2020 edition, by Ulrich Bergmann, Matteo Courthoud & Lachlan Deer

It is designed after and borrows a lot from:

• Effective Programming Practices for Economists, a course by Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
• Software Carpentry's Managing Software Research Projects lesson
• Data Science for Economists, a course by Grant McDermott