| Title | Time | Room | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Code Essentials: Structured Software Development Made Easy. Structure, quality and efficiency in programming - clean code in scientific practice (CS&CE) | 08.01.2026 09:00 - 16:00 (Thu) | Online | Gunnar Bless |
| Clean Code Essentials: Structured Software Development Made Easy. Structure, quality and efficiency in programming - clean code in scientific practice (CS&CE) | 09.01.2026 09:00 - 16:00 (Fri) | Online | Gunnar Bless |
In two days, the course teaches the basic principles, methods and tools for clean, maintainable and comprehensible code in a practical way in order to sustainably increase the quality and efficiency of software development.
• Introduction
• Test First & Test Driven Design
• Code-Formatting & Style-Guides
o Quality-traits: Searchability, Consistency & Code Quality
• Documentation
o Comments, DocStrings & Annotations
• Tooling & Automation
• Traits of Good Code
o Design by Contract, Separation of Concerns, Function Signatures, Orthogonality
• SOLID Principles
• Further principles
o DRY, KISS, Beware Premature Optimization, YAGNI, Tell don't ask
• Classes, objects and data structures
o Different kind of objects, Objects vs. Data Structures, Mixins, Perils of Inheritance
• Some Common Design Patterns and their takeaways
Optional (as time allows)
• Unit-Testing and Refactoring
o Test First & Test Driven Design, Integrationstests, Issue Tracking, Reviews
• Pythonic Code
o Decorators, Context Managers, Generators, functional programming
• Clean Architecture
• Code-Structuring, Software components
Practical work on the PC; Discussion and discussion of questions and tasks; Lecture
Beginning of/ Halfway through the doctorate
Programming experience with e.g. Python, C++ or Matlab. The participants do not need to be experts, but must have a solid basic understanding. The course uses Python
This course is intended as a subject-specific course only for doctoral candidates of CS&CE. If enough spots are available, other doctoral candidates of the CIT can later enter it as a transferable skills course
Laptop/PC with web access, participants will receive information on the required software before the seminar
none necessary
Before the seminar, we conduct a short survey among the participants to clarify prior knowledge and expectations.
You need to take part in at least 80% of the course to have it approved for your qualification program.
If you are on the waiting list: it can take up to 2-3 working days for freed spots to be allocated.
A signed statement signed by your supervisor will be required:
- in the event of late cancellation after the deregistration deadline, if your spot cannot be filled with someone from the waiting list
- if you are a no-show
If you fail to provide it, you will be blocked from GC-CIT courses for the following 2 semesters.
Gunnar Bless, graduate physicist, has extensive experience as a trainer. For almost two decades, he has conducted exciting and captivating training courses in the fields of software engineering, data science and programming. He is a speaker at various professional conferences and is also active as a technical book author.