BSCI 5107 PROGRAMMING BOOTCAMP
Introduction to programming as an integrated environment for data processing and visualization, scientific computing, and modular programming. The course covers the concepts of scripting and programming and will address fundamental issues of memory management and debugging. Parallels to other environments for scientific data handling such as Matlab, Perl, Python, R, and programming languages such as C will also be discussed. The last day of the course is reserved for an introduction to the popular statistics package R. Data examples are borrowed from a variety of biomedical research areas. The objective of the course is for every student to build the foundation for advancing his/her research project by tailored computational data analysis solutions. This intensive one-week course consists of a combination of classroom lectures, guided exercises in small groups, and homework assignments. Lectures and guided exercises are held 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in classroom. Students then get homework for the evening and weekend that will deepen their understanding of the taught material. The course is open to incoming graduate students, MSTP students of all classes, and any biomedical researcher at UT Southwestern interested in programming and computational data processing. No prior experience with programming is required.