Python course in Bioinformatics
pasteur.fr46 pointsby skenney267 comments
(def mapr (f x y . fs)
(let r (range x y)
(map f r
(apply map + (map [map _ r] fs)))))
arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [+ _ 10])
1 11
2 12
3 13
(1 2 3)
arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [expt _ 2])
1 1
2 4
3 9
(1 2 3)
arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [+ _ 10] [expt _ 2])
1 12
2 16
3 22
(1 2 3)
Last week my partner was in Spanish class and the teacher told her that the most important languages to know in the future will be English, Spanish, and a programming language. Programming is the new literacy. She decided she wanted to learn to program. We opened up Terminal on her Mac laptop, typed "python", and used Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python as a guide. Done.
With a PC you at least have access to JavaScript (and Marijn Haverbeke's Eloquent JavaScript tutorial) which is more than suitable for a first language.