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Intro to Coding Bootcamp 2023

Coding Outreach Group (COG)

This set of tutorials is intended for complete beginners to coding. If you have never written a line of code in your life, these tutorials will help you get comfortable coding in three programming languages: bash, python, and R. These three language are often used by psychology researchers, and these tutorials are catered to that field. However, the concepts covered are applicable in any field that does coding. Much of the material covered in the tutorials is borrowed from some already great, and more in-depth tutorials. A list of these is available here.

Agenda

Date	Workshop	Lead Instructor
08/22/23	Bash Command line	Helen Schmidt
08/23/23	Python	Katie Jobson
08/24/23	R	Steven Martinez

Getting Started

Each tutorial will list the necessary prerequisites in their respective README.md files, but here is some software we recommend you install before the workshops. We will also spend some time going over the installation on Day 1.

• A command-line shell (i.e. Bash, see note below)
• A text editor you're comfortable with (Atom, VSCode, etc.)
• Spyder, available through Anaconda
• RStudio
• Git and create a GitHub account (Optional)

For PC users, you can set up the bash command line and git by installing this program. For Apple or Linux OS users, your terminal is this and you do not need to install further software.

Meet Your TAs

Billy Mitchell	Katie Jobson	Helen Schmidt	Steven Martinez

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at Temple University, and especially Dr. Peter Marshall for their support.

intro-to-coding-2023's Issues

add 'cd ..' to bash

Could be beneficial to talk about 'cd ..' in the actual workshop, I always have to explain it for people but it would be good to have it for those who want to go through it on their own

remove exclamation points from bash if statements

they wreak havoc and don't work on macs