Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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You do test your code, right?
Well? We certainly hope so.
Testing can be a pain. But it should also be a habit. And we think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that testing your code is a Good Thing. The Scientist-Programmer often finds a tension between ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
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Java is a object oriented language developed by Sun Microsystems. It was designed from scratch to be simple, secure and platform independent. It has a large and active community and recently most of the code has been made open source. This post looks covers the ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
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The scientist-programmer is in many ways a peculiar being. Most of what you do each day is programming, yet the reason for your (professional) existence is to produce good science. We think it's worth just taking a moment to think about this.
Lots of prototyping ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
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In the last post we covered four fundamental ways to improve your code: read, write, review and contribute. This post will cover reviewing code: how to review, how to be reviewed, what to look for during a review and when to perform a review.
Related posts:Writing ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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Becoming a better programmer is not only a laudable goal for improving the quality of the science you produce but programming is a great skill to have if you decide to leave the academic world. This post covers ways of becoming a better programmer.
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