Section: 6.1 The NetCDF Example Requirements

6.1 The NetCDF Example Requirements

The requirements for netCDF examples.

The following requirements, from the NetCDF-4.0 Requirements document, describes what we hope to achieve with the examples.

Example programs will demonstrate many of the features of netCDF.
Each example will consist of a single code file, which the user can easily paste from the web page into their netCDF development environment.
Examples include reasonable error handling.
Examples are as brief as good coding style permits.
Example code is well-commented.
All examples can be built and run as one make target ("make check").
Examples are distributed with netCDF and compile and run on all supported netCDF systems.
Corresponding examples will be provided in C, F77, F90, and C++.
Examples do not depend on each other, but may depend on a common real data file.
Some examples illustrate netCDF features in realistic ways as used by the Earth Science community.