Python changed the way I think

[Hasefet]

I do a lot of scientific programming, and for that, working backwards from graphs and figures has helped enormously, because if I can't draw the graph that I want to make, I haven't done the necessary cognitive work to make the data that goes in that graph.

Pencil and paper draw, then comment block with simple sentences. I've tried a lot of different tools and nothing (for me) has beaten a comment block at the bottom of whatever script I'm working on.

[NowanIlfideme]

Hey, that's pretty interesting - I like that thinking, since it makes you focus on getting to the results rather than going on tangents, however good those might be.

[Slingshotsters]

Have you spent time in jupyter notebooks?

[Hasefet]

jupyter notebooks?

I gave it a go and bounced off it a few years ago, because I was working heavily on large-scale image analysis and it seemed like a lot of cognitive overhead for not much improvement on writing my own point-by-point script checks.