Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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While our aim in this blog is to be language-agnostic, obviously you do need to pick a language in which to write your software. In this and the next post, we're going to explore some of the considerations to selecting that language. Before ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
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The starting point for any software project is to know what you're actually trying to achieve. This post is going to look at how to go about collecting the objectives of a project.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
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Programming for scientists (prog4sci) is a blog for scientists and anyone else who writes software. But it isn't "just another blog about programming". Far from it! This blog will be about building better (scientific) software. We're making two important distinctions here. The first is ...
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