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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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Scientist-Programmers write a lot of scripts. It's part-and-parcel of "trying stuff out", it's a quick way to get some number crunching done on those data, and it's very useful for generating the figures and tables that you need for that paper you're ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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The purpose of this blog is to help scientists program more effectively and efficiently, so they can get more science done. For those of you who'd like to be systematic in your learning, we present the prog4sci software project primer!
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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Python (named after the TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, not the snake) is a high level programming language that aims to have a clear syntax and only one correct way of doing something. This post will look at how it can be used for ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
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Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, or SWIG for short, is a tool that provides a way to interface C/C++ with a variety of high level programming languages (notably Python, R but not Matlab - which has it's own way of linking to C). It ...
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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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