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	<title>Programming for Scientists</title>
	
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		<title>Writing code for a big scientific collaboration</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/10/26/writing-code-for-a-big-scientific-collaboration/</link>
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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 ‘programming for scientists’ link montage</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/10/13/the-programming-for-scientists-link-montage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Continuing our theme of gathering together useful stuff for the scientists-programmer we present a list of interesting, useful, informative and possibly fun links. Enjoy!

CodeKata
Musicians practice, sportsmen practice, ninjas practice. Software engineers should practice as well.
CodeKata provides practice sessions to strengthen your programming muscles.
Software Carpentry
Software Carpentry is an intensive introduction to basic software development [...]


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		<title>The ‘Programming for Scientists’ 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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=596</guid>
		<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>The ‘Programming for Scientists’ software project primer</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/09/02/the-programming-for-scientists-software-project-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/09/02/the-programming-for-scientists-software-project-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;d like to be systematic in your learning, we present the prog4sci software project primer!  Choosing a programming language
If you haven&#8217;t already done so, you&#8217;ll need to choose a language [...]


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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>Building scientific tools that are actually useful</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/08/04/building-scientific-tools-that-are-actually-useful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of scientists write bits of software to get things done.  Sometimes they offer to give someone else (a collaborator, student, postdoc etc) a copy of some of their code, to help that person out.  Sometimes a given piece of code is useful enough that it gets handed out multiple times, and so starts to [...]


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		<title>The basics of … Python</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/07/21/the-basics-of-python/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Python (named after the TV series Monty Python&#8217;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 scientific computing.
HistoryPython was written by Guido van Rossum [...]


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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>Doing it for yourself – deciding whether to use someone else’s code</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/22/doing-it-for-yourself-deciding-whether-to-use-someone-elses-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using someone else&#8217;s code can be great.  Or it can be horrible.  If it does exactly what you need it to, doing so with no bugs and no ambiguity, then this is awesome.  If you need to make changes to buggy, uncommented code written by someone who thinks the GOTO statement &#8220;really isn&#8217;t that bad&#8221;, [...]


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		<title>Stay on target! Ways to help yourself work</title>
		<link>http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/10/stay-on-target-ways-to-help-yourself-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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In a previous post we talked about how to keep your brain in tip top condition and staying in the &#8216;zone&#8217;. We recommended some simple techniques like removing distracting email, IM or twitter traffic but sometimes the problem isn&#8217;t staying in the zone, it&#8217;s getting into the zone in the first place. In [...]


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