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Practical Computing for Biologists

Steven H. D. Haddock, Casey W. Dunn

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Practical Computing for Biologists was an extremely great one for me, but it looks like the price got jacked way up, maybe there are PDFs floating around and maybe it’s worth $120 due to awesomeness. https://practicalcomputing.org/index.html Mainly I give this recommendation based on the practicality of the material and straightforward style. You don’t necessarily need to be a biologist to get a lot out of it, same stuff is used everywhere anyway. Combine that book with the Pythonista app on a phone and you can just whip out your mobile device and instantly have a better equivalent to a TI-83 calculator, with internet.