This is a perfect opportunity to use Perl for a very interesting activity. There is a Bioinformatics course on Coursera,
https://class.coursera.org/bioinformatics-001/class This class is called, "Bioinformatics Algorithms". Since Perl is used extensively in the field of bioinformatics, and the programming assignments require interesting programming techniques (e.g., dynamic programming), I can see this being of interest to some people here - https://class.coursera.org/bioinformatics-001/assignment You can use any language you want, but obviously I would assume anyone here to use Perl. It's free, and if several of us sign up (I and another I know of already has), I think it could be a fun thing that we report on periodically here (or discuss outright as it relates to Perl programming). I know I will find this extremely challenging (both with time and subject matter), so it would be cool to have some others to bounce ideas off of. At the end (or from the start), we could throw all the code up on Github for posterity's sake. I don't mean to group program, but be a study group of sorts. If you sign up, let me know. We can then figure out how we want to utilize any study group that forms. We could use this list for the time being, but if it got too chatty we could also move it to another list. You may email me privately to let me know if you're going to do it. I hope to have a few others working on this. Thanks! Brett ps: Coursera has a ton of awesome CS (from theory to practical) classes taught by highly regarded institutions and professors; e.g., Jeffrey Ullman is teaching an Automata Class (one I recommend if interest and time permits) - https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&cats=cs-ai,cs-programming,cs-systems,cs-theory
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