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title: "Intro to Coding"
subtitle: CARTI Basic Science Research Training Track 
author: "Amy Yarnell, JP Courneya"
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## Course Description: 

This course is designed to give participants an introduction to key skills they will need to begin confidently working in a research computing environment. Participants will learn fundamentals of programmatic thinking and making their research reproducible.

### Session 1: Introduction to the Command Line
Topics include:

- What is the Unix Shell?
- Basic and commonly used Unix commands
- Understanding and navigating the filesystem
- Working with files
- Control flow
- Automating repetitive tasks

### Session 2: Wrangling Data with R and RStudio
Topics include: 

- Overview of the R programming language and RStudio IDE
- Installing packages
- Overview of tidy data and the tidyverse collection of packages
- Workflow for exploring and cleaning data
- Importing data
- Basic row and column operations (subsetting, creating new variables, summarizing)

### Session 3: Visualizing Data with R and RStudio
Topics Include: 

- Principles and best practices of data visualization
- Storytelling and communication with data visualization
- Creating and customizing plots with the `ggplot2` package.

## Schedule

| Date           | Time                   | Topic                              |
|----------------|------------------------|------------------------------------|
| Sept. 17, 2024 | 11 a.m - 12:30 p.m.   | Introduction to the Command Line   |
| Sept. 18, 2024 | 10:45 a.m - 12:15 p.m.| Wrangling Data with R and RStudio  |
| Sept. 18, 2024 | 1:30 p.m - 3 p.m.     | Visualizing Data with R and RStudio|


## Acknowledgements


## License
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