Dear all, Sorry about the belated thanks to all those who replied. Unfortunately, I went out of town soon after posting my request and have only just returned. If I may continue, however, I notice that several of the replies suggested books etc. for a course designed for teaching programming for bioinformatics. Although I write code, I am a biologist and this course is being offered by the Biology department. In fact, the computer science department would certainly take objection if I were to teach programming in the course. I will have to restrict the teaching to available tools only. I can of course, give the computer science students projects where they would be required to write code (any suggestions?). Essentially, I am trying to do what Michael Sadowski has suggested. By the way, Christoph's Bioinformatics STRAP appears very interesting but I am still to explore it properly. Cheers, Sudhindra Gadagkar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, Ph.D. Department of Biology University of Dayton 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469-2320 Ph: (937) 229-2410 Fax: (937) 229-2021 Email: gadagkar at notes.udayton.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioedu/attachments/20060815/c51d8437/attachment.html