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Re:Scientists should learn to program by henning on Sunday November 25, 2007 @03:38PM (#83379)
If scientists should learn programming, we should meet them halfway and learn some science.

I've always wanted to do cool numerical stuff like n-body codes, computational fluid dynamics, etc, but I never really knew where to get started.

It doesn't help that most example code out there is spaghetti garbage written in Fortran.

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Re:Scientists should learn to program by michaelneale on Sunday November 25, 2007 @05:52PM (#83412)
It would be kind of fun to "pair program" with a scientist like that. Each learning from each other. You know the details to keep the machine happy, he knows the details to get the formulas right. Together == cool things.
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