Experience learning (basic) R programming
Hello everyone! As mentioned before, I'm currently in a Masters of Data Science program. This last semester I had my first introduction to the R programming language. For those who don't know, R is a free programming language primarily used for statistical analysis. Prior to learning R, the only exposure to programming I had was during my undergraduate studies; I had spent two years as a Mechanical Engineering major (before switching to International Relations), and one of my courses was studying MATLAB. I was admittedly nervous about learning R, since I had last studied any sort of programming over ten years ago, and had also only ever dabbled with HTML when I was younger. But honestly, I think that my background in foreign language learning really helped. Programming languages (to me at least) seem very intuitive and logical. You might need to do things in a certain order, but that's no different from learning a rigid grammar structure. ...