lec14.md

Lecture #14: Finite Difference Equations & Project Management with Github

Lecture Objectives

Textbook Reference

N/A

Activities

1. Deriving difference equations for 1st & 2nd order equations

   • a brief overview based on these Numerical Analysis Lecture Notes by Peter Olver (U. Minnesota)

2. Github tools for project management

   • Defining your project and its community
     • README
     • Contributing guide
     • Style guide
     • Code of conduct
     • etc
   • Issues
     • task management with opportunities to
       • assign individuals
       • label by topic
       • assign to milestone
       • conversations
   • Milestones
     • Collections of issues
     • impose/propose deadline
     • track progress
   • Projects
     • track flow of individual tasks
     • consider coarse grained dependencies
     • prefer lots of small tasks
     • "Kanban"
   • Pull requests
     • include reference to issue that is being addressed in comments