Sanjay Manohar is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience and a Consultant Neurologist at the University of Oxford. He has 38 years of coding experience in C, Java, Python, Bash, MATLAB, Javascript, assembler, and Basic. He is a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, an RCUK-funded body that aims to improve software in academia. Sanjay has taught courses in Good Coding Practices for seven years at University College London and Oxford. He is a passionate teacher, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators.

• 1: Introduction 2: Best practices 3: Preparing to code 4: Comments and documentation 5: Choosing names 6: Conceptualization 7: Functions 8: Data 9: Efficiency 10: Errors Commonly confused terms Glossary References

Sanjay Manohar is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience and a Consultant Neurologist at the University of Oxford. He has 38 years of coding experience in C, Java, Python, Bash, MATLAB, Javascript, assembler, and Basic. He is a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, an RCUK-funded body that aims to improve software in academia. Sanjay has taught courses in Good Coding Practices for seven years at University College London and Oxford. He is a passionate teacher, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators.

• 1: Introduction 2: Best practices 3: Preparing to code 4: Comments and documentation 5: Choosing names 6: Conceptualization 7: Functions 8: Data 9: Efficiency 10: Errors Commonly confused terms Glossary References

Sanjay Manohar is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience and a Consultant Neurologist at the University of Oxford. He has 38 years of coding experience in C, Java, Python, Bash, MATLAB, Javascript, assembler, and Basic. He is a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, an RCUK-funded body that aims to improve software in academia. Sanjay has taught courses in Good Coding Practices for seven years at University College London and Oxford. He is a passionate teacher, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators.

• 1: Introduction 2: Best practices 3: Preparing to code 4: Comments and documentation 5: Choosing names 6: Conceptualization 7: Functions 8: Data 9: Efficiency 10: Errors Commonly confused terms Glossary References