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Monday, March 9th, 2009
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In the last post we covered four fundamental ways to improve your code: read, write, review and contribute. This post will cover reviewing code: how to review, how to be reviewed, what to look for during a review and when to perform a review.
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
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IDL is the Interactive Data Language (not to be confused with another computing IDL, Interface Description Language ), which as the name suggests is very useful for the analysis and processing of data. It's very popular in particular areas of science, because it's quick to ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
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All programmers need some way of getting the code from their head into the computer. Nowadays, this means a development environment or text editor of some sort. There are a range of these available for different platforms and languages and many of these are ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
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C and increasingly its Object Oriented younger brother, C++, are the go-to languages if you need complete control over your computer and the ability to transfer your code to just about any other platform. They are also the languages that are most likely to trip ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
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R is a free programming language designed to be good at statistics and graphics. It's downloadable for free and has lots of built-in functionality for maths, statistics and graphics operation. It also has an active community that develops new add-on packages (libraries) and can ...
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