Articles tagged with 'advocacy'

1 2011-12-16

Blog: Moving from IDL

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In a blog post at scicoder, Demitri Muna has offered to provide, in the scicoder website, answers to specific questions that fall under the broad category:

"What would it take to move you away from IDL?"

The following is extracted from the scicoder blog post:

I'd like to hear from you what the core things you do in IDL are (please be ...

Posted by phn
1 2011-06-10

Blog: 10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons it Doesn’t)

Hoyt Koepk of the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington writes about "10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons it Doesn’t)".

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Posted by phn
2011-05-28

Blog: Why Astronomers should program in Python.

A short article on why astronomers should program in Python http://goo.gl/ZIjdM. Something to send to all REU and equivalent programs!

Posted by phn

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