FAQs for Developers¶
Q: Where is all your dGC code?¶
A: All the code for all our Digital Growth Chart work is publicly available on GitHub, in the rcpch
organisation. See https://github.com/rcpch.
Q: Why did you build the API in Python?¶
A:
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Python has become the de-facto language of the scientific and bioinformatics communities.
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Most of the packages we needed were '1st party' ie maintained by the PSF
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We think it's a nice language to use.
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It's accessible to clinicians who want to learn to code, and it's easy enough to learn that it's taught in schools.
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It has everything we needed for building an API and web layers we needed.
Marcus Baw wrote a blog post on 'Why Python..' which has a little more detail.