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It is known that software development entails much collaborative work. However, the nature and manifestations of such collaborations have not been analysed in detail. This is the task of this chapter. I show the manifold ways in which developers share code and information, provide each other with technical help, use online platforms to launch and join open source projects, and organize the work of development teams. The issue of modularization (division of software development projects into specialized parts) is analysed. Finally, the chapter introduces the idea of software flexibility with which I classify different development projects based on the levels of collaboration between programmers.

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Notes

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    https://biomedia.doc.ic.ac.uk/software/mirtk/.

  2. 2.

    When quoting parts of interviews, I sometimes include my question in bold letters.

  3. 3.

    To know details about the Surveys, see the Methodological Appendix.

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    http://nipy.org/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.apache.org/.

  6. 6.

    http://agilemanifesto.org/.

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    https://pt.stackoverflow.com/.

  8. 8.

    I come back to the issue of objects and object-oriented languages in chapterThree.

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    https://sourceforge.net/.

  10. 10.

    The methods used in the preparation of maps is explained in the Methodological Appendix.

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    http://dcm.ffclrp.usp.br/csim/jbios/.

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    http://nipy.org/index.html.

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    http://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/.

  14. 14.

    https://github.com/.

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Bicudo, E. (2019). chapterTwo ( Sharing Code: Social Mediations in Software Development ) {. In: Neuroimaging, Software, and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7060-1_2

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