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Is Python a good language to learn programming? A question regularly posed to Slashdot followers is "how to become a programmer?" or "what programming language is the best to learn?" There are no easy answers because it is not easy to learn to program nor is there one best language for learning to program or to program 'professionally'. However a broad consensus exists that Python is useful both as language for learning how to program and as a programming language in its own right suitable for developing serious software applications. A terminal session driving my python program. Learn Python The Hard Way  (2nd Ed) by Zed A. Shaw is a sufficiently challenging yet productive step-wise set of exercises that you can use to gradually learn both how to wrangle your computer and how to program. You will learn that the answer is both out there (thanks search engines and people who post to blogs or groups) so long as you ask the question, and within you if you work ...

Having enrolled "Statistics and R for the Life Sciences" run on EdX by Harvard (MOOC module  PH525.1x )... Some notes and pointers for R; introductory and tutorials for basic statistical treatment of quantitative data. As an aside comment, would you believe that running R commands and generating plots, makes data fun and surprising? Or is it just me? At least it's something different, perhaps more interactive than doing the same thing in a spreadsheet. Did I say it felt like fun already? Perhaps when generating those beautiful little graphs automatically? Definitions: p-value, confidence interval, random variables, null distributions, central limit theorem, inference tests like t-test, association test, permutation test. Getting started with R. The software first. Download and install R from CRAN  http://cran.r-project.org/ Download and install R Studio for the desktop (the same people also run/operate Shiny)  http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/   Q: Am...

Our guest lecture by Edna Lyatuu Hogan 12:00pm midday Tuesday 11th Apr in N303. The topic was how NGOs Revolutionise ICT for Development; talking about technology and innovation in Tanzania. Vikas, Edna and Anna at the start of the lecture. Edna concluded by setting a challenge, to support social enterprises in Tanzania which benefit from the sales of her book " POEMS for the Soul and the Bold Minds!: Life and Love Poems " on Kindle.

Research based Term Paper One of the end products of this project is the Research Based Term Paper. This project requires  you  to develop a specialist understanding of a particular global sourcing facet by investigating an authentic research opportunity or data source. Your aim is to produce a cogently argued presentation of research motivation, insights gained from research, and the implications of the findings with possible future work. The theme for the term paper this year is: Measuring the impact of IT outsourcing: the relationship between sourcing activity and social impact occurring in [replace with name of country]  The theme for next year's term paper will be: Understanding the relationship between education activity and ICT service activity in [replace with name of country]: Is increasing educational attainment driving ICT activity or is increasing ICT services activity prompting educational attainment and workplace participation?   How do you interpr...

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Adam Grant's take on the false economy of performance review, firing underachievers, and all that other bad stuff that happens to good people. I suppose it's no accident that the constructs he talks about and in his research include help-givers, help-seekers, givers, takers.