1/ A brief rant: There are way too many people in computational social science (or computational X) who incessantly cite the literature on software engineering as defense of their god awful fucking code.
3/ In fact, (imo), doing so reliably signals an artifact-riddled ABM. It's formalism as a diversion from code that smells.
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4/ ...and, it's usually written by someone who *didn't* do most of the coding -- the person I'm least interested in hearing from when the concern is: "how does this model work?"
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PPS: If you're starting out in a computational field and think you're a weak programmer, skip the GangOfFour-style books and *use* things like
@PragmaticAndy &@pragdave's The Pragmatic Programmer. - Pick a rule; - Use it while writing code; - Repeat.https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X …Show this thread
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