practical computing for biologists

[douglas repetto]

Creature cast is a terrific website. Its sponsor, Casey Dunn, just
released this book and I thought it might interest some diybio peeps:

Practical Computing for Biologists
Steve Haddock and Casey Dunn

http://creaturecast.org/archives/2045-practical-computing-for-biologists

best,
douglas

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[Jonathan Street]

The table of contents (http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=3914#tents) suggests the topics covered are fairly general - regular expressions, using the shell etc.

It's a shame there isn't a sample chapter available.

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[J. S. John]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jonathan Street
<streetj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The table of contents (http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=3914#tents)
> suggests the topics covered are fairly general - regular expressions, using
> the shell etc.
>
> It's a shame there isn't a sample chapter available.
>
> On 9 December 2010 16:06, douglas repetto <dou...@music.columbia.edu>
> wrote:
>>

Yep, and $60 is too much for a simplified rehash. I would be more
excited if they had a section on good programming methods. I took
matlab and the book used was terrible. I still can't solve some of
their loop and if statement exercises. For $60, you can pick up books
on unix, python, and many other languages.