I am attempting to sharpen the saw. I am taking a course online from Coursera, which I believe is associated with John Hopkins University called Computing for Data Analysis. The course is turning out to be HARD!
https://class.coursera.org/compdata-003/class/index
The course assumes that I remember math from 30 plus years ago, which obviously is a bad assumption. The course also assumes I have been exposed to statistics, which is also false.
I am learning the basics of the R programming language. I am getting to learn RStudio.
Although it is hard, I think in the end I will have learned a tiny bit. Let me share with you two lessons I learned today.
The runif command does not mean "run if" but "r uniforms".
https://class.coursera.org/compdata-003/class/index
The course assumes that I remember math from 30 plus years ago, which obviously is a bad assumption. The course also assumes I have been exposed to statistics, which is also false.
I am learning the basics of the R programming language. I am getting to learn RStudio.
Although it is hard, I think in the end I will have learned a tiny bit. Let me share with you two lessons I learned today.
The runif command does not mean "run if" but "r uniforms".
Quote - "less typing is always better because good programmers are always lazy"
Please note I thought the quote was funny. I do not believe developers are lazy. I do support the premise that developers try to write code as simple as possible.
Please note I thought the quote was funny. I do not believe developers are lazy. I do support the premise that developers try to write code as simple as possible.
I will continue to tough out this course because in the end I believe I will have learned something useful and applicable.
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