Developer Tutorial: Adding a New Category of Tasks

This tutorial presents a step-by-step guide to adding a new Categories of tasks to the Polaris Python package (see the Glossary for definitions of terms). In this tutorial, we use the overflow as an example.

The tutorial is divided into several pages, each covering a different aspect of the process.

• Overview of the Tutorial
• Getting Started
• Making a New Category of Tasks
• Adding a Shared Step
• Adding a First Task
• Testing the First Task and Step
• Fleshing out the init Step
• Adding Plots
• Adding Step Outputs
• Adding a forward Step
• Adding a Visualization Step
• Documentation