Tag: beginners

The Most Important Programming Lesson

In the fall of 2012, I walked into my graduate advisor’s office and asked her which computer science class she recommended for me to enroll in. I explained that I was a complete novice in programming. She suggested Introduction to C Programming. After attending a few lectures, I discover...

{ Tech101: Who is Json? }

While Voorhees, Statham, and Derulo all have their talents, both good and evil, I would propose that the best Json goes to the machine-readable file format. Json, or rather JSON, is an important acronym in the tech world. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is frequently used by...

R For Beginners: R You Ready?

The Background Story R is an object oriented programming language that had its first stable beta version in 2000. The objects package data and procedures that operate on that data. For example, you can define a variable as a data frame, a table-like structure containing data, and attach instructions...