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R In A Nutshell by Joseph Adler. Reviewed by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Jul 13, 2010 12:30 AM — —

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This book is a very good introduction to the R programming language. R is a free, general purpose programming language(with a strong support for doing statistics). The language has its idiosyncrasies. For example, the assignment operator is denoted by a reverse arrow (x<-2); this book does a pretty good job of explaining all these in detail. Once you get past these details, you will find that R is a pretty versatile language.

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python by Mitchell L. Model Reviewed by Mark Voorhies — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 11, 2010 04:30 PM — —

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As a biologist preparing to teach my first course (on Python programming for biologists), I was excited to hear about Mitchell L. Model's Bioinformatics Programming Using Python. A quick look through the table of contents indicated a thorough coverage of the language and useful libraries, and the introduction indicated that it would be appropriate for students in the life sciences with no prior programming experience...

Natural Language Processing with Python Review By Sukanta Ganguly — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 11, 2010 04:05 PM — —

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This book is a near-perfect blend of Natural Language Processing done Python usage to its fullest. Not only did the authors describe NLP extremely well and provided great explanation to many different conditions but they also showed an effective use of Python to substantiate the technical content.

VMware Cookbook First Edition by Ryan Troy and Matthew Helmke Review by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Bill Deegan — posted on Feb 21, 2010 03:50 PM — —

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This is a good book for anyone working with the Enterprise products of VMware :ESX, ESXi and vCenter Server.

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python by Mitchell L Model Review by Dr. Sukanta Ganguly — by Bill Deegan — posted on Feb 21, 2010 03:00 PM — —

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This book is a good Python Programming tutorial. It does a good job of explaining the concepts of Python programming to individuals who would like to learn Python. The book is written in eleven chapters. It has two appendix titles ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python by Mitchell L Model Review by Jason Chin — by Bill Deegan — posted on Feb 21, 2010 03:00 PM — —

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Comparing to Perl, Python has a quite lagged adoption as the scripting language of choice in the field of bioinformatics, although it is getting some moment recently. If you read job descriptions for bioinformatics engineer or scientist positions a few year back, you barely saw Python mentioned, even as “nice to have optional skill”. One of the reasons is probably lacking of good introductory level bioinformatics books in Python so there are, in general, less people thinking Python as a good choice for bioinformatics. The book “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” from O Reilly was published in 2001. Almost one decade later, we finally get the book “Bioinformatics Programming Using Python” from Mitchell Model to fill the gap.

Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development By Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson Review by Tony Cappellini — by Bill Deegan — posted on Oct 19, 2009 12:00 AM — —

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My first involvement with Erlang was while I had this book as a guide. I had no significant experience with a functional programming concepts or “real concurrency”. I had been disillusioned about concurrency by using Python (aka Python threads).

Regular Expressions Cookbook Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages By Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan Review by Tony Cappellini — by Bill Deegan — posted on Jun 15, 2009 12:00 AM — —

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I was glad to hear another book on Regular Expressions was in the making, I couldn’t wait for a review copy. I have been a user of Jan Goyvaerts’ regex software tools for just over a year now even though I had often-encountered the websites authored by him, while googling for Regular Expression resources. In one of his blog entries, I came across a notice of this forthcoming book, and emailed O’Reilly that I would like to be a reviewer.

Statistics in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference By Sarah Boslaugh, Dr. Paul A. Watters Review by Matt Cooper & Saera Khan — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 04, 2009 01:10 AM — —

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Summary First, let us provide a little context for this review. Two of us contributed to the review; one of us is a psychology professor and the other in software research. We both make regular use of statistics and have some statistical background in our training, albeit with fairly different end applications.

Learning the Vi and VIM Editors 7th Edition by Anrnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah & Linda Lamb Review by Harry Tormey — by Bill Deegan — posted on Mar 15, 2009 12:00 AM — —

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This book is all about how to use the text editor Vi and the improved version of it Vim and to a lesser extent other editors derived from Vi.