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.

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Python has become the de-facto language of the scientific and bioinformatics communities.
Most of the packages we needed were '1st party' ie maintained by the PSF
We think it's a nice language to use.
It's accessible to clinicians who want to learn to code, and it's easy enough to learn that it's taught in schools.
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.