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    Can you learn to code... for free?

    14 February 2014

    Can you learn to code... for free? Posted by s.hettrick on … There's been a recent  drive to get people to learn code, which has led to a few notable victories like the … the national curriculum, and initiatives like the Year of Code . A recent article in the Guardian listed ten …

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    Can you learn to code... for free?

    14 February 2014

    Can you learn to code... for free? Posted by s.hettrick on … There's been a recent  drive to get people to learn code, which has led to a few notable victories like the … the national curriculum, and initiatives like the Year of Code . A recent article in the Guardian listed ten …

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    Guide: 5 Popular Myths of Learning to Code

    01 November 2021

    Guide: 5 Popular Myths of Learning to Code Posted by j.laird on 1 November 2021 … guide is part of the series of resources on learning to code , hosted as part of the Research Software Camp: … guide is aimed at researchers that haven't yet started to code. Here we call out some of the myths surrounding …

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    Code Review Clinic

    19 September 2023

    Code Review Clinic The Code Review Clinic ran on week 2 (8-12 November 2021) of the … coders to get general but targeted feedback on their code from an expert. We welcomed applications from first …

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    Writing readable source code

    06 October 2023

    Writing readable source code Guides By Mike Jackson. Readable source code is vital If our peers are to quickly and easily understand our source code, it must be readable. The Software Sustainability …

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    Aim for understandability if you want to write good research software

    04 July 2022

    … 2022 speed blog series .  What is considered good code is subjective. For example, an end-user would want the code to be correct, easy to learn and simple to use. There isn’t a need to touch the source code as long as the code fulfills the end-user’s …

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    How to encourage developers to share code

    08 May 2012

    How to encourage developers to share code Posted by m.jackson on 8 May 2012 - … By Mike Jackson. At the "what makes good code good and peer software reviewing" session we ran at … of solo developers who may not want others looking at their code. Some people can be sensitive, defensive, or even …

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    Treat your research code with a code review

    18 March 2022

    Treat your research code with a code review Posted by j.laird on 18 March … Valerio Maggio. There are many reasons to do regular code reviews. One of them is improving the readability of …

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    What makes good code good? A digital social research view

    16 December 2011

    What makes good code good? A digital social research view … Digital Social Research, where we asked "what makes good code good?". The attendees, who were research programmers … necessary qualities, which we've copied here. Good code should... Correct . Code must be correct and …

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    Listen to our Learning to Code podcast

    12 November 2021

    Listen to our Learning to Code podcast Posted by j.laird on 12 … Since September we’ve been running a Learning to Code mentorship programme as part of our Research … in the programme about their experiences of learning to code in a podcast episode hosted by Code for Thought , …

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