UCL for Code in Research
The companion podcast for courses on programming from the Advanced Research Computing Centre of the University College of London, UK.
3/9 Research Software Engineering with Python (COMP0233) - Introduction to Python
Python is one of the most widely used programming languages in research and science. How did it come to that. And what makes Python special? It's something I discuss with my guest in this episode, Robin Wilson, who also takes us through some of the less favourable or more complex aspects of the language.
Links
http://www.rtwilson.com Robert Wilsonhttps://blog.rtwilson.com Robert's blog postshttps://www.python.orghttps://anaconda.org Anaconda Python distributionhttps://jupyter.org all things Jupyterhttps://ipython.org iPythonhttps://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-pythonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programmingPython libraries...
2/9 Research Software Engineering with Python (COMP0233) - Git Part 2
In this episode we look into more essential Git commands, such as branching and merging. Branching and merging are key concepts that help you develop code or even text documents in a team. They help you maintain different versions of files and work on them independently.
Another element of collaborative working is provided by GitHub: the pull request. Pull request are a great way to do code reviews, which avoids introducing bugs and also learn from each other.
In my conversations Sam and Eirini talk about these key features and their experiences with it.
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Peter Schmidt - the host of this podcast - interviews Sam Harrison, an environmental modeller at the UK Centre for ecology and hydrology. Is it version control important for his research? what tool does he use? How he learn it? Links and transcript available in the show notes.
About Sam
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/samuel-harrisonhttps://www.ceh.ac.uk/About Git
https://git-scm.com/https://github.com/git/git/https://github.com/git/git/tree/v0.99 (almost) first version of Git from 2005https://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/rsd-engineeringcourse/ Lecture notesDon't...
