Re: Work on Basic Mathematica Stephen!
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- From: "Ernst H.K. Stelzer" <ernst.stelzer at physikalischebiologie.de>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 05:03:52 -0400 (EDT)
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This is a very good suggestion. Stackexchange addresses this issue to a certain extent, particulalrly when questioneers and answerees continue to edit their questions/answers and point to the most complete answer. However, the editors are very sensitive to to simply providing the code for a reasonable problem if it is not phrased as a question, which I appreciate and do not wish to discuss here.
Whenever I find interesting code here on mathgroup or on Stackexchange I copy it into one of my MathGroupTippsAndTricks notebooks and make sure it is in a format I will understand months or years later. However, this concept fails once the notebooks contain too many dynamic entries and become excessively large.
I have also started to write more complete packages (.m) with comments and full names. But how do I share them with the community?
There are also many sites for C-programmers looking for snippets of various kinds, but I have yet to come across one that can be searched ...
I agree with Paul, sharing notebooks, functions and code-snippets is a very serious task where Wolfram has to make an effort and either do it themselves or via supporting the community and where a good search functionality is absolutely essential. The demonstrations project is by no means sufficient, particulalrly since it does not allow code that imports and exports data.
Sincerely
Ernst
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Prof. Dr. Ernst H.K. Stelzer
Physikalische Biologie/Physical Biology (FB 15, IZN)
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From: paulmchale7 at gmail.com [paulmchale7 at gmail.com]
Sent: 19 May 2013 11:51
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Subject: [mg130842] Re: Work on Basic Mathematica Stephen!
Another "missing item" is toolbox.wolfram.com. There are many functions people write that would be amazing useful to others but will never be shared. I have shared some potential toolbox entries here like a function that receives evenly spaced time/data pairs and returns FFT in terms of Hz. Handy to have laying around. I started a Toolbox.nb that I refer to often. It would be great to have an "open source" sharing mechanism to have the community support each other. Some of the things in my toolbox:
1. Cool graphing functions with very simple legends
2. Canned functions for unique file formats
3. Easier ways to measure time than Timing[]
4. Database access routines
5. Initialization stuff
6. Functions to communicate over Ethernet
7. Functions to talk to external COTS test equipment
It would be cool to have a community place to store and share this stuff. Like a sourceforge model for Mathematica. Peer reviewed notebooks or external applications to extend Mathematica.
Any chance of this?
Thanks,
paul
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