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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 … Academy is the site for you. 2. Learn to Code the Hard Way: best for hardcore beginners Learn to Code

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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 … Academy is the site for you. 2. Learn to Code the Hard Way: best for hardcore beginners Learn to Code

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    Don’t be afraid - anyone can learn to code

    02 November 2021

    Don’t be afraid - anyone can learn to code Posted by j.laird on 2 November 2021 … immediately fundamental to my current job, so it has been hard for me to justify making time. But I do feel that …

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    Training resources for researchers that want to learn to code

    11 November 2021

    Training resources for researchers that want to learn to code Posted by j.laird on 11 November 2021 … . Learning to code can be daunting and often it’s hard to know where to start to look for resources. As part …

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    Steps To Start Liberating Your Science

    12 April 2016

    … looking to make their science more open. Step 1: Learn What Open Research Can Do For You Are you … information today is very different from when libraries and hard copy books were the only way to learn about a subject … BioSharing Github (for documentation and code) Google Doc Overleaf and ShareLaTeX (for …

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    CW14 Discussion sesssion 3

    15 April 2014

    … this discussion : Documentation depends on how we learn – we need training in pedagogy for documentation … for research groups– with snacks and treats – papers or code documentation. We need rewards! People will come! … The "technician" question. What level to cost at? Hard to get people to do part time But front/back loading …

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    Using Python to double check your work

    01 November 2021

    … including academic research. But analysing data is hard and requires discipline and accuracy. A single mistake … at the end. This blog post contains quite a bit of code, but this is not the important bit. It is my intention … scraping web pages, and working with spreadsheets. Learn Python the Hard Way . A book about learning Learn

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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 … why you wrote it in this way. Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules to achieve crystal clear code. In fact, …

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    The WTFs/min indicator of code quality

    02 September 2011

    The WTFs/min indicator of code quality Posted by s.hettrick on 2 … that a lot of people have a lot of opinions, but it’s hard to point to a satisfying, objective description of code … : “In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance we learn that there is a point you reach in tightening a nut …

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    9 steps for quality research software

    05 April 2016

    … can be summarised in the one paragraph. If you have code that seems like a big ball of spaghetti: improve it. … step. Since that acceptance step can be really, really hard, it might be easier to start with a hypothetical … practice around your group. Both reviewer and reviewee will learn things. It will probably work best with an informal …

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