ALEX THORNE

One other thing I'm quite excited about is the prospect of bringing an engineering mindset to academia. There is a lot of computational work done and code written in physics, but many of the tools and methodologies known widely to software engineers are not common in academia. To name a few: Git (and associated collaboration tools like GitHub), automated testing and packaging. In the future I may write on some of these topics in the hope of popularizing these topics among physicists and other academics... Various practical expositions of topics ranging from web development to dev ops to functional programming.