Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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Testing your code is important. Pretty much vital, in fact. This is because if you don't test your code, you don't know if it really works. So an integral part of any software project is to come up with a good set of tests ...
Posted in testing/debugging | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
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C and increasingly its Object Oriented younger brother, C++, are the go-to languages if you need complete control over your computer and the ability to transfer your code to just about any other platform. They are also the languages that are most likely to trip ...
Posted in The basics of... | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 8th, 2008
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R is a free programming language designed to be good at statistics and graphics. It's downloadable for free and has lots of built-in functionality for maths, statistics and graphics operation. It also has an active community that develops new add-on packages (libraries) and can ...
Posted in Choosing a programming language, The basics of... | 10 Comments »
Monday, December 1st, 2008
'Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering ', by Robert L. Glass.
Robert Glass is a man who knows a lot about software engineering, he has written over a dozen books and writes regular columns in programming and computing publications that work towards his, self-confessed, goal of trying to bridge the academic ...
Posted in Book review, More advanced topics, The basics of... | 4 Comments »
