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Ask HN: Blog for scientist that need to code, how to grow it?

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Hi all,

I have several friends that are not computer engineers by training but they need to code for work.

Mostly they are scientists and data scientist.

I believe I can help them, indeed they gladly listen to my suggestions about coding.

In order to have a bigger impact I am starting a blog trying to distil those "lessons" in articles. Here the "index":

http://redbeardlab.com/code-boosting/

I would like suggestions about where to post those articles to reach my target audience.

I believe those articles are not very useful for HN.

Do you guys have any ideas?

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Clicky: http://redbeardlab.com/code-boosting/

I think the articles are good enough to be submitted here. (I wouldn't call them "groundbreaking", just good.) Sometimes a good idea with a well written explanation is good to share when you have a similar situation.

About http://redbeardlab.com/2019/01/24/cb2-single-responsibility-... I think the example you pick is important enough to get it's own article. Sometimes you read code that reads files in the middle of the calculation out of the blue. And also I saw examples of code that has a big warning: "Remember to change number of <something> in line 817" or you should remember to change it in spite there is no comment at the beginning of the file.

Another good point about separating the input phase is that it's more clear is a temporary array to store the input data and arrange it slightly is only a temporary array and it is not used later. With a big monolithic programs sometimes it's not clear which are the important data storage parts and which are ignored in the rest of the program.

Thanks!

Your words are very kind. My request didn't get any reply but yours and it would have been extremely discouraging without you!

Yes, I don't want to incorporate nothing of groundbreaking in that series, scientists need to be able to write and share good enough code and that is where I am aiming. Simple concepts that have prove themselves over and over in engineering but that are not common in other fields.

I will definitely incorporate your feedback, moreover if you have more ideas about blog articles I could cover or bad patterns that you see happen again and again feel free to let me know.

Thanks agains for your kind words!

Cheers,

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