Re: [sumo-devel] Guidelines for writing code and SumoTime

[Pranay S. <myn...@gm...>]

Thanks for your time and reply Christoph. Will go through the links you
shared.
I had originally asked this question as I thought there were some strict
code formatting requirements for writing software for opensource.   Still
not being a "pure" CS guy these tips and links will help a lot-thanks :).

-- 
Pranay Sharma
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Website   :www.pranaysharma.in




On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Christoph Sommer <
chr...@in...> wrote:

> Hi Pranay,
>
> Pranay Sharma wrote:
> > I was hoping if I could share my work with others in some form.
> > As I am a total new-bee with regard to Open-source so I wanted to know if
> > there are any guidelines/formatting to keep in mind while writing code
> which
> > others can use?
>
> Reading code is much harder than writing code.
>
> Thus, for others to be able to use your code, it must be dead-simple to
> understand.
>
> Numerous measures, from easy to obscure, have been proposed as rough
> guidelines to enforce more readable code (e.g., short methods, shallow
> nesting, ...) and whole book chapters have been dedicated to teaching
> proper software design (e.g., chapter 5 of Code Complete; PDF available
> on <http://cc2e.com/>). Probably the simplest rule, however, is best
> described by Brian Kernighan in The Elements of Programming Style:
>
> ''Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in
> the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it,
> how will you ever debug it?''
>
>
> > Also, has anyone tested use of the API files of TraCI-Server [...]?
>
> Aside from unit tests, numerous projects have :)
>
> See
> <
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sumo/index.php?title=TraCI#Implementation_Status
> >
> for an (incomplete) list. I'm guessing many of the projects on
> <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sumo/index.php?title=Projects>
> have, too.
>
> As far as writing external software for controlling traffic lights goes,
> there have been a number of posts to this mailing list recently, which
> suggested you're not alone.
>
> In fact, we're doing this too, though not using a stand-alone
> application, but in the context of our Veins <http://veins.car2x.org/>
> car-to-X communication simulation framework (also Open Source software).
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Sommer
> Computer Networks and Communication Systems
> University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
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>
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