Archive for the ‘Case studies/examples’ Category
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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Rich has recently been considering switching to the Python programming language. Currently, Matlab is the language of choice in his department for rapid development and prototyping of code. It's very good at this, but Mathworks (the company who produces ...
Posted in Case studies/examples, Choosing a programming language | 13 Comments »
Monday, January 19th, 2009
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The internet is full of smart people writing intelligently on how to write good software. Very few of these articles are from the perspective of a scientist (hence this blog!) but a lot of what they write is useful, interesting and, occasionally, entertaining. This ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
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Over the summer, Rich has been writing a novel clustering algorithm for use with gene expression and other similar types of data. There are some interesting facets to this (scientifically-motivated) project which illustrate some of the considerations the scientist-programmer can encounter when working on ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
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We've written a function in pseudocode. Twice. Once will be using good coding practice, care and attention. The other one won't. Because both functions will be doing the same thing, this is a great way to see the difference that good programming practice can ...
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