Software Carpentry is a non-profit organisation that teaches computing, coding and programming skills to researchers using face-to-face and online courses. I’ve found Software Carpentry to be very useful throughout my computing career and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to gain a good understanding of computing principles. Software Carpentry Not Software Engineering The term… Read More »
Codecademy is an online, interactive learning environment for web technologies. With it’s combination of good pacing, humour and example projects, I’ve found it really does make it easier to learn a new coding language. I really would recommend it. Codecademy Has Excellent Free Lessons I’ve been working through their free Javascript lessons, which I’ve found… Read More »
Which Programming Language Should I Learn? With hundreds of programming languages out there to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start. What makes matters worse is that the question of which programming language someone should learn can get people quite hot under the collar, as they insist that their preferred language… Read More »
I find Matlab great, and for the most part it is my go-to scientific software package. Unfortunately if you don’t have access to a license, or your license server connection isn’t so great, using Matlab may not be so practical. Lately I’ve found that software packages based on python have been getting better and better… Read More »