Research on GitHub repositories

We explored Github to discover useful repositories with good software engineering practices. Here are some notable repos that we found:

Atom

"Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century."

• It is not complex to understand, tags and documentation are simple.
• Users can customize whatever they want.

By : Çağrı Atahan Canbeyler

TensorFlow

"TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs."

• Labels are clear and it is easy to understand for everyone.
• Especially the "Build status" part is made it so obvious and well-organized.

By : Çağrı Atahan Canbeyler

Snowplow

"Snowplow is an enterprise-strength marketing and product analytics platform."

• It's basically an end to end platform for data collection and analytics.
• One thing that is really great is the content in the wiki page. Everything a user may need is easily accessible. Even though you are not sure how to start, the wiki page lets you figure out how to get there.
• The basic depiction of their technology lets you grasp the idea of their product, even if you are not familiar with the topic.

By : Mert Yüksekgönül

Release It

"CLI release tool for Git repos and npm packages."

• It's a tool for automated release of software, handles many things related to the release from changelogs to pre-releases.
• The one very neat thing about this repo is their demo gif. That's a nice design choice for a readme page, lets you imagine what the tool is about without even reading a thing.

By : Mert Yüksekgönül

AllenNLP

"A natural language processing research library, built on PyTorch, for developing state-of-the-art deep learning models on a wide variety of linguistic tasks."

• AllenNLP makes it possible to develop deep learning models for NLP tasks without writing any code.
• Besides its simplicity, its modular design gives you the ability to change or extend any built-in behavior.
• Its source code is well written and tested.

By : Yunus Emre İnci

Mastering Bitcoin

"Programming the Open Blockchain"

• This repository includes detailed explanations about the dynamics of Bitcoin and it's blockchain.
• The step-by-step approach lets you build your knowledge base in a solid manner.
• If it is okay for you to read on GitHub, then it is free and open for contribution.

By : Fatih İver

Linux

"Linux Kernel Source Tree"

• This is the original source tree of Linux Project by Linus Torvalds. (Not much to say about it)
• It is a great place to start coding an operating system since they include documentation about how to start and get involved in the project for starters.
• They have infinitely many contributors.
• Since this is a huge and practical repository, it is very likely that you get overwhelmed. It is okay to feel bad.

By : Fatih İver

TheAlgorithms/Python

All algorithms implemented in Python for education

• It shows basic algorithms with explanations.
• Also, it has a lot of topics in it like machine learning etc.

By : Rukiye Dilruba Köse