This is an online course that will help students to gain a basic understanding of scientific programming. The course will be taught using R language, so you will learn to use R. However, the programming techniques learned in this course will be easily transferable to other programming languages. The focus will be on programming for scientific analyses. This course will cover basic concepts and techniques in programming such as recognizing and changing data types, reading in and writing out data, indexing, loops, creating functions, iterations, manipulating data and creating plots. You will learn base R and a few selected packages.
