Software Projects and Packages to Share Code
Explore the concepts of software projects as containers for program files and how organizing code into modules improves development. Understand the role of packages in sharing and reusing code, and how package managers help manage external modules, facilitating collaboration and efficient software development.
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Working with software projects
The term project can be used in two different ways when talking about software development:
- A collaborative enterprise used to develop the actual program—in other words, a group of people working together to build something. For that, we need a project plan, a project leader, and so on.
- A container for all the files that make up the program being developed.
It’s the latter meaning—a container for all the files that make up a program—that we’ll discuss here. The first description ...