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High school interns - skills ideas - for winter/spring #21

Open bpbond opened 6 years ago

bpbond commented 6 years ago
ashiklom commented 6 years ago

Some resources to consider, perhaps for "homework" or background reading:

Git and GitHub

The (in)famous Git book. I still firmly believe that there is no better way to get a firm git foundation than properly working through (with terminal open) the first few chapters. That said, there are lots of other nice interactive ways to learn it, such as those linked here.

Introduction to R Data processing in R

If I were teaching a course on R, I would probably make a curriculum that follows, in order:

ashiklom commented 5 years ago

Another great resource that just occurred to me is Claus Wilke's Fundamentals of Data Visualization. It's not strictly R-related, but the approach to visualization fits naturally with the ggplot2 philosophy (and, not surprisingly, all of the plots in there are generated with ggplot2).

ashiklom commented 5 years ago

Haven't looked too deeply, but RStudio's Education organization has lots of teaching resources.

Also, awesome-r is mostly a list of good packages for various applications, but towards the bottom, it links to some R learning resources as well.

I'll try to look at some of these links more closely later this week.

bpbond commented 5 years ago

Another possibility: the swirl package. I tried out the first 5 minutes and looks like it has potential.

ashiklom commented 5 years ago

swirl seems like a great place to start. I like that it's right in your local R(studio) session. I also really like that you can write your own lessons. There's a good chance I'll end up using it in my GWU course.

My vote would be to use Swirl to get comfortable in R, and then to move to R for Data Science.

Regarding git, I would probably recommend CodeAcademy's interactive Git tutorial paired with background reading from Pro Git. Once she wraps her head around the basics, I would also encourage her to start using git to manage her R lessons.

Just jotting down some thoughts -- we can discuss later today.

bpbond commented 5 years ago

So a Arkansas grad will be doing a SULI this summer with me, and we've agreed that learning some coding will be part of her training. So I think Rebecca's and our testing of Swirl etc. this spring will be very useful.