Radiative Transfer Outline

• Early stages of development
  • Project requirements
  • Language choice
  • Development environment
    
    
• High-level design
  • Communicating the physical problem
  • Mapping into software components
  • Prototyping
    
    
• Lessons learned
  • Good tools and resources are essential
  • Useful programming techniques
  • C++ is ugly
  • 80-20 rules
  • Scientific computing is hard
    
    

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