Archive for the ‘Case studies/examples’ Category

Coding case-study: (re-) writing a clustering tool

Friday, October 17th, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="photo by jimkster"][/caption] 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 ...

Good code, bad code - an example

Friday, September 26th, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by jaycoxfilm"][/caption] 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 ...