Welcome to Spyder’s Developer Documentation

Spyder is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts. It works as a Desktop application developed in Qt and thanks to its new API it is composed of semi-independent plugins.

Where to go now

Spyder’s developers documentation offers a wide variety of resources that will guide you from the very basic steps of contributing to Spyder, to Plugin creation.

1. Learn how to contribute to Spyder -Introduction (development environment)

2. Learn how Spyder’s API works -Terminology-Dictionary (terminology) -Codebase Introduction: How is Spyder’s code structured? (codebase_orientation) -Plugins and widgets in Spyder (extension_developer-guide) -??Dependency graphs? (new_api)

3. Learn how to write a plugin for Spyder -Introduction to Qt -Using cookiecutter -Plugin tutorial (plugin_tutorial_1) -Design patterns

4. Sample plugins -Workshop 1 -Plugins examples

5. FAQ

Contents

• Introduction
• Spyder's terminology
• Codebase Introduction
• API Elements
• Qt Introduction
• Cookiecutter
• The first plugin
• Plugin Development with Spyder
• Extending Spyder
• Design Patterns
• FAQ