%IMP provides a variety of scripts to aid the lives of developers.

Creating a module is the easiest way to get started developing code for %IMP. First, choose a name for the module. The name should only contain letters, numbers and underscores as it needs to be a valid file name as well as an identifier in Python and C++.

To create the module run tools/make-module.py my_module from the top-level %IMP directory. The new module includes a number of examples and comments to help you add code to the module. The directory structure of the new module is identical to [that of existing modules](@ref directories).

If you feel your module is of interest to other %IMP users and developers, see the contributing code to IMP section.

The tools/dev_tools/cleanup_code.py script uses the external clang-format and autopep8 programs to reformat C++ and Python code respectively to conform to our [preferred indentation](@ref codeconv_indentation), working around some eccentricities of %IMP code. clang-format is part of llvm >= 3.4. You should always inspect the changes made by clang-format before submitting.

The tools/dev_tools/check_standards.py runs a number of %IMP-specific standards checks on C++ and Python files. It is also run as part of git commits. This can help you conform to %IMP's [code conventions](@ref code_conventions).