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It would have the side effect of improving and propagating best practices. Most scientists are self taught programers, and it shows. The data models and codebas
by tdaltonc 11y ago
It would have the side effect of improving and propagating best practices. Most scientists are self taught programers, and it shows. The data models and codebases used by most labs are . . . amateurish.
- dikaiosune 11y agoI really like what this group is doing: http://software-carpentry.org/ http://software-carpentry.org/ I took their instructor training last summer but I haven't had a chance to run a workshop yet. I think it's a great idea, especially given my recent exposure to researcher-written codebases.
- Thriptic 11y agoSeriously, I consider myself lucky when I get code that's even been commented from labmates...It took me about a year to get 50% of people using github
- collyw 11y agoOne ex-colleague of mine wouldn't even indent her Perl code properly. I showed here there was even a button in eclipse to do it for her. (Using eclipse seems problematic when there is a text editor that doesn't involve any cognitive overhead to many bioinformaticians. The step through debugger did seem to appeal to this one though).