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Building Software Together

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If you are an undergraduate student embarking on a semester-long
software project as part of a team, this book will give you tools
that will help you succeed. Some of these are purely technical, like
a version control system or an IDE; others are guidelines to help you
form teams, manage people who aren't pulling their weight, cut
features when time runs short, and understand who owns the things you
produce.

Our aim is to teach you how to be a compassionate programmer: one who
cares as much about the well-being of their colleagues and users as
they do about their own. This focus is not entirely
altruistic--everything you do to help others also helps your future
self--but now that we all know how much harm software can do, we hope
you'll be interested in some practical idealism.

 1. Introduction
 2. The Important Stuff
 3. Starting
 4. Teams
 5. How to Talk People Into Things
 6. Managing Conflict
 7. Using Git On Your Own
 8. Using Git Together
 9. Intellectual Property
10. Communicating
11. Testing
12. Software Design
13. Security
14. Error Handling
15. Debugging
16. Automation
17. Tooling
18. How to Make Yourself Comfortable
19. Process
20. How to Join an Existing Project
21. How to Welcome Newcomers
22. Research
23. How to be a Good Research Partner
24. Fair Play
25. How to Handle Being Fired
26. Wrapping Up
27. How to Hand Over and Move On
28. Conclusion

 A. License
 B. Bibliography
 C. Code of Conduct
 D. Contributing
 E. Glossary
 F. Thinking
 G. Research Methods
 H. Onboarding Checklist
 I. Project Evaluation
 J. Personal Evaluation
 K. Further Reading
 L. How to Get Started Freelancing
 M. How to Change the World
 N. Authors
 O. Index

All proceeds from this project will go to support the Red Door Family
Shelter.

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