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		<title>Scripting for science papers</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/12/17/scripting-for-science-papers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Scientist-Programmers write a lot of scripts.  It&#8217;s part-and-parcel of &#8220;trying stuff out&#8221;, it&#8217;s a quick way to get some number crunching done on those data, and it&#8217;s very useful for generating the figures and tables that you need for that paper you&#8217;re writing.  In this article, I give a quick once-over of some of [...]


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		<title>Writing code for a big scientific collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the striking thing about scientific software is the range of different contexts in which it&#8217;s needed.  Scientists need quick-and-dirty scripts to process their data and plot their results; they need prototypes so that they can experiment with new statistical techniques; and they sometimes need to build new software tools that they&#8217;ll use again [...]


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		<title>The &#8216;Programming for Scientists&#8217; training montage</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/09/29/the-programming-for-scientists-training-montage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As any attentive movie-goer knows, self-improvement can be a great way for the hero to overcome the obstacles in their path and generally do great stuff.  As it is with Rocky Balboa, so it is with programmers, and particularly with Scientist-Programmers.  Finding the time to develop your skills means that everything you do subsequently, you&#8217;ll [...]


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		<title>How to explain programming to your Mum</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/08/18/how-to-explain-programming-to-your-mum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article will hopefully be helpful for those times when you have to explain to your mum/dad/girlfriend/person on the bus what it is you do all day. I can't help you explain the intricacies of your particular scientific field but I can help explain how all the computers get involved.


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		<title>10,000 hours and the Scientist-Programmer</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/07/06/10000-hours-and-the-scientist-programmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of 10,000 hours effort as a benchmark to become an expert has recently become pretty well known.  The idea is this:  experts are made and not born, and the way that they&#8217;re made is to accrue 10,000 hours of hard work at the subject in question.  This sounds to us like somewhat of [...]


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		<title>The oddities of being a scientist-programmer</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/03/16/the-oddities-of-being-a-scientist-programmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scientist-programmer is in many ways a peculiar being.  Most of what you do each day is programming, yet the reason for your (professional) existence is to produce good science.  We think it&#8217;s worth just taking a moment to think about this.
Lots of prototyping 
The nature of science means you&#8217;ll probably be doing a lot [...]


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