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Markel, Scott; Nüst, Daniel; Sochat, Vanessa; Marwick, Ben; Eglen, Stephen J.; Head, Tim; Hirst, Tony and Evans, Benjamin D. (2020). Ten simple rules for writing Dockerfiles for reproducible data science. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(11), article no. e1008316.

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Hopgood, A. A. and Hirst, A. J. (2007). Keeping a distance-education course current through elearning and contextual assessment. IEEE Transactions on Education, 50(1) pp. 85–96.

Latif-Shabgahi, G. and Hirst, A. J. (2005). A fuzzy voting scheme for hardware and software fault tolerant systems. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 150(3) pp. 579–598.

Price, Blaine A.; Richards, Mike; Petre, Marian; Hirst, Anthony and Johnson, Jeffrey (2003). Developing Robotics e-teaching for teamwork. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, 13(1-2) pp. 190–205.

Johnson, Jeffrey; Hirst, Tony and Garner, Steven (2003). Learning from designing the RoboFesta - Blue Peter robots. Artificial Life and Robotics, 7 pp. 22–27.

Wong, Patrick; Donelan, Helen and Hirst, Tony (2020). Understanding and mitigating students’ difficulties in undertaking complex practical activities on their computers. In: 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 29-30 Apr 2020, Milton Keynes, England.

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Willis, Alistair; Charlton, Patricia and Hirst, Tony (2020). Developing Students' Written Communication Skills with Jupyter Notebooks. In: The 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20), pp. 1089–1095.

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Hall, Alan Geoffrey; Wermelinger, Michel; Hirst, Tony and Phithakkitnukoon, Santi (2018). Wide, long, or nested data? Reconciling the machine and human viewpoints. In: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), 5-7 Sep 2018, London.

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Hall, Alan Geoffrey; Wermelinger, Michel; Hirst, Tony and Phithakkitnukoon, Santi (2017). Structuring Spreadsheets with the “Lish” Data Model. In: Proceedings of the EuSpRIG 2017 Conference "Spreadsheet Risk Management".

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Johnson, Jeff and Hirst, Tony (2005). Robots, art and complexity science. In: Complexity Symposium: Art, Complexity and Technology: Their Interaction in Emergence, 5-6 May 2005, Torino, Italy.

Rosewell, Jonathan; Johnson, Jeffrey; Hirst, Tony and Price, Blaine (2005). Robotics and the meaning of life: a practical guide to things that think. In: CAL '05 'Virtual Learning?', 4-6 Apr 2005, Bristol, UK.

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Hirst, Anthony John (1998). Adaptive evolution in static and dynamic environments. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Howson, Oliver; Adeliyi, Adeola; Willis, Alistair; Hirst, Tony; Charlton, Patricia; Gooch, Daniel; Rosewell, Jonathan; Richards, Mike; Wermelinger, Michel; Piwek, Paul; Savage, Simon; Lowndes, Charly; Thomas, Elaine and Smith, Andrew (2020). Best Practices in using Technological Infrastructures. The Institute of Coding.

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Sharples, Mike; McAndrew, Patrick; Weller, Martin; Ferguson, Rebecca; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Hirst, Tony and Gaved, Mark (2013). Innovating Pedagogy 2013: Open University Innovation Report 2. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Sharples, Mike; McAndrew, Patrick; Weller, Martin; Ferguson, Rebecca; Hirst, Tony; Mor, Yishay; Gaved, Mark and Whitelock, Denise (2012). Innovating Pedagogy 2012: Open University Innovation Report 1. The Open University.

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