If you are planning to develop some new code for Sage, design is
important. So think about what your program will do and how that fits
into the structure of Sage. In particular, much of Sage is
implemented in the object-oriented language Python, and there is a
hierarchy of classes that organize code and functionality. For
example, if you implement elements of a ring your class should derive
from sage.structure.element.RingElement, rather than starting
from scratch. Try to figure out how your code should fit in with
other Sage code, and design it accordingly.
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