Seems like all your colleagues are Hackers? Want to get in on the fun? Or perhaps just automate, accelerate and amplify your research output? Dr. Nathaniel Butterworth will give you a brief history of programming languages to understand what exactly coding is, how and why coding is used by researchers, what language is popular now, what was popular 20 years ago, and what will make you employable if/when you leave the academic world. TLDR: the answer is Python or R (or maybe something else).
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