The embarrassing way to code
Disclaimer : This post was written by Shane Legg , but in some way, represents exactly the same situation happened to me. SciPy – the embarrassing way to code I’ve programmed in many languages before, indeed I’ve spent at least a year working in Basic, C, C++, C#, java, assembler, modula-2, powerhouse and prolog. One thing I’ve never done before is Matlab, well except a few basic exercises for some course I did way back. A couple of years ago I started using python and more recently I’ve started to use the scipy libraries which essentially provide something similar to Matlab. The experience has been unlike anything I’ve coded in before. The development cycle has gone like this: 1) Write the code in python like I would write it in, say, java. I have data stored in some places, then I have algorithms that iterate over these data structures computing stuff, calling methods, changing values and doing various complex things in order to implement the desired algorithm. 10 pages ...