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How programming can help you learn to play the flugelhorn

In today’s post I want to talk about something very close to my heart. My flugelhorn. No, it’s not a dirty word, or a euphemism. If you don’t know what one is, look it up. I’ll try describe it. It’s a brass instrument, slightly larger than a trumpet but sounds Read more…

By Michelle Reeve, 6 years ago
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Basically coding

Like it or not coding is now a major part of science. Some might debate that point but this is my column and these articles go a lot better if you all just agree with me. Also, by coding, I mean programming or writing scripts that make computers go. I feel I Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years20 April 2016 ago
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How to make a cake with Git

Last week, I wrote about my new MSc student and that he was writing code to do a load of clever spectral processing. In that post I mentioned sharing his code via something called GitHub. Today, I thought I’d take a moment to explain what the hell a ‘Git’ is Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years19 March 2014 ago
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Meet ‘Feature Creep’

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years8 November 2013 ago
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