Schedule

Week 1 - Tue Sep 2

• Introduction and goals
• Course logistics
• Infrastructure setup
  • Command line
  • Markdown
  • VSCode
  • Web Server

Week 2 - Tue Sep 9

• Infrastructure cont’d
  • Git Setup
  • Git Usage
• JavaScript
  • Introduction
  • Setup & Syntax Basics
  • Variables, Comments, Data Types

Week 3 - Tue Sep 16

• JavaScript
  • Errors & AI
  • Operators, Expressions
  • Conditionals & Refactoring
  • Page Updates and Input

Week 4 - Tue Sep 23

• JavaScript
  • Functions
  • Arrays
  • Loops
  • Objects
• Experiment design
  • Theory & Examples
  • Introduce project

Week 5 - Tue Sep 30

• jsPsych
  • Introduction
  • Conditions
  • Results
  • Blocks

Week 6 - Tue Oct 7

• jsPsych cont’d
  • Images, Fixations, Timing
  • Save Results
  • CSS

Week 7 - Tue Oct 14

• OSF & DataPipe
• Production via Github Pages
• jsPsych wrap-up/advanced features
• JavaScript misc. (APIs, Qualtrics, etc.)

Week 8 - Tue Oct 21

• Coding Interviews (1 of 2)

Week 9 - Tue Oct 28

• R Refresher
  • Software
  • Working directories / file organization
  • Data types and structures
  • Vector operations
  • Control structures
  • Built-in functions
  • Packages

Week 10 - Tue Nov 4

• R Level Up
  • Best practices for writing readable, maintainable, reproducible code
  • Debugging tools
  • Using AI for debugging and refactoring code
  • Custom functions and other modular code strategies
  • Common mistakes and how to avoid them

Week 11 - Tue Nov 11

• R Data Wrangling & Manipulation
  • Importing
  • Basic filtering and subsetting
  • Data transformation
  • Grouping and summarizing
  • Common mistakes and how to avoid them

Week 12 - Tue Nov 18

• R Advanced Techniques & Practices
  • Automating repetitive tasks
  • Batch-processing
  • Parameterized reports
  • Performance considerations

Week 13 - Tue Nov 25

• R Project workshop

Thanksgiving Recess - Nov 26 - Nov 30

Week 14 - Tue Dec 2

• Coding Interviews (2 of 2)