A Programmer’s Discussion: Procedural vs. OO

A Programmer’s Discussion: Procedural vs. OO
now that's something that I didn't expect to pop-up, people making a stand for Procedural programming vs OO.  (in the comments, the author of the post stands neutral though)

After so many years, I think I have only managed a few OO code although I am totally convinced that OO is the way to go. I have attributed this to my poor programming skills and often I need the ad hoc script to just work and cut down on development time. It is more rare than often that I have to reuse my code in a way that copy and paste doesn't solve the issue at hand fast. (vs remembering where did I deposit that method and how to access the method)

Hmmm perhaps I am not alone in this after all!

Book review:Programming Collective Intelligence

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran

Permalink: http://amzn.com/0596529325

 

I have always wanted to explore classification methods and their theory to see how I can apply these to bioinformatics. But so far I have yet to encounter a book or website that explains the topic well with examples that you can do. It's a bonus that the examples are written in Python a language I know and has highly readable code for those that do not know. 

 

Although the examples are not from biology but it is easy to see how some classical biological problems can be solved by SVM. 

p.s. This amazon associates widget is cool! it will throw up relevant books based on my words in the blog post!