…don’t even think about coding before you’ve got the program designed.
Ha – easier said than done! As anyone who’s ever been bitten by the programming bug would tell you, it’s much more fun to just start typing. You want to see if it works. You’ll try out little bits and pieces, saying “I’ll just sketch it out”, “let’s make sure I can get these functions to talking to each other” and so on. Before you know it, you’ve got this big unwieldly mess of code and you can’t remember what it was supposed to do.
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Before I get into all the nitty-gritty of what I’m working on, I thought I’d give a quick run down of my setup.
I’ve got a bit of programming experience but not so much that I would want to use C or any of its variants so all the coding is done in Java 1.5 (or 5.0 – whatever the right one is). I’m using Eclipse 3 M4 as an IDE (works great except for JavaDoc support) with the RePast agent-based modelling framework. R is used for statistical analysis.
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This is probably my fourth attempt at a blog in about a year. Not the best track record I realize but between bad hosting setups, ugly homebrewed hacks, and apathy, things just never really got going. But this will be different – honest!
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