Archive for the ‘Craft of coding’ Category
Monday, January 26th, 2009
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Software code is machine-readable. But sometimes it's not very human-readable.
for i=1:n
d = function1(i)
f = function2(i)
a = function3(d)
aa = function4(d)
aaa = aa^2
for j=1:nn
d(j) -= a
d(j) /= aa
if aaa > vt, f(j) = TRUE, end
end
function5(d, i)
function6(f, i)
end
(we've actually seen real code where the author used variable ...
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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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Monday, January 12th, 2009
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In a previous post, we discussed what our project objectives were and how collect them. We've also considered how to choose a programming language , as well as how to write pseudocode and build a prototype. But we've missed something. We've made an implicit assumption ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
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Computers are great for handling numbers and doing large amounts of operations on them. They can repeat the same operation over and over again and they will do the same thing every time (unlike a human, who will sometimes do the wrong thing ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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During Rich's PhD, he was presented with some code and told to use it as the basis for a project he was working on. This generosity turned into a major headache for a number of reasons, not least because the (somewhat sparse) comments were ...
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