Computer Programming Language Course

[scorched]

a side note for your biostats degree.

Just understand that R is a free/open source stats package and good for learning statistical analysis, but very few companies use it. So while it has been picking up steam in the university research realms the last few years, most biomed companies still use SAS, SPSS, STATA and Mathematica.

Here are some links for you:
BIOSTATISTICS/STATISTICS SOFTWARE PROGRAMS - Compiled by Betty C. Jung
http://www.mcw.edu/biostatistics/Research/Software.htm
RSPH | Statistical Software Tutorials on the Web

Kind of old data but still useful
UCSF Biostatistics: Power and Sample Size Programs

Now if one day you want to push your biostats to the limit, then I would suggest a decent programming background like has been suggested. As you will learn the term HPC (high performance computing) aka supercomputing or massively parallel processing. The use of R, Stata, SAS, SPSS can all be done using supercomputing. Plus make sure you learn some fundamental unix/linux because there are ZERO windows HPC systems in the top 500 systems.

Here an idea on the topic
https://www.msi.umn.edu/reports/departme...statistics
GTech Rolls Out Supercomputer for Biological Research | Informatics Iron | GenomeWeb

just google biostatistics hpc for more

cheers!

[NAP]

Thank you so much for sharing lots of information and guidance!

[NAP]

R Statistical Programming

Thank you for all of your help in tracking down great resources for learning about R! This is the list that I used, plus I have more links to try later.

Code School - Try R

R Tutorial

An Introduction to R

PSU Online class videos and Simple R pdf
https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat497r/

Update: See more links in this post - http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post149781

[UptonSinclair]

Did you see this extension course through UC San Diego? They actually offer a certificate in biostatistics.

Introduction to R Programming - UC San Diego Extension

[taligator]

To add to this, for learning web programming like HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc, try CodeAcademy.com

It's a great resource for learning programming in an easy way. It won't make you a master programmer by any means but gives you the foundation to figure out where to go next. It's done in bite-sized chunks so it feels manageable.

[NAP]

Thank you both! Great info to have.