Archive for October, 2009

Writing code for a big scientific collaboration

Monday, October 26th, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by ralphbijker"][/caption] One of the striking thing about scientific software is the range of different contexts in which it's needed.  Scientists need quick-and-dirty scripts to process their data and plot their results; they need prototypes so that they can experiment with new statistical techniques; and they ...

The ‘programming for scientists’ link montage

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Continuing our theme of gathering together useful stuff for the scientists-programmer we present a list of interesting, useful, informative and possibly fun links. Enjoy! Related posts:The ‘Programming for Scientists’ training montage“Should I switch to Python?” Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.