Scientific Software Development Is Not an Oxymoron
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Scientific Software Development Is Not an Oxymoron
‘‘Many scientists and engineers spend much of their lives writing, debugging, and maintaining software, but only a handful have ever been taught how to do this effectively: after a couple of introductory courses, they are left to rediscover (or reinvent) the rest of programming on their own. The result? Most spend far too much time wrestling with software, instead of doing research, but have no...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1553-734X,1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020087