I’ve started my Learn R course through Codecademy and am pleased to report that much of what I’m learning feels like familiarization.
Why R? Well, I’m told that psychologists, researchers and many scientists need to know how to code using R in order to analyze data.
Though I’ve never taken an R course, I did take computer programming in high school (Borland Delphi graphic user interface programming) and in my first year of university (C programming). In another life I wanted to be a programmer.
The one gripe I have thus far, though I’m only in the first of 10 modules, is that I don’t think some of the concepts are explained that well. Thankfully I already know what a variable and a string are, and a whole lot more about writing programs but still, not ideal for helping people really comprehend. There are other R courses on many other sites but I’m going to keep plugging through as it’s still a simple format.
I think the crux to this programming language, like all IRL languages, is that repetition and practice is going to be the best way to learn. You need to work on problems, and write code. The only way is through!