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Check out the [target audience]({{ site.baseurl }}/about/audience) of the course and decide if you will benefit from interacting with these materials. If you are a scientists at any educational level that works with data and you 1) want to learn the basics of programming or 2) want to establish a little more formal programming background and work-flow, then you are likely our target audience. You can find a little more encouragement in our description of [why you should take this course]({{ site.baseurl }}/about/why-should-you-take-this-class/).
All you have to do is register and turn in the homework on CANVAS. As a self-guided student you can follow along with the whole course.
- If you do not attend the lectures, please follow the [schedule]({{ site.baseurl }}/schedule), which begins with introduction to the [Shell]({{ site.baseurl }}/about/why-shell/), and goes on to include introductions into [R]({{ site.baseurl }}/about/why-r/). Each [assignment]({{ site.baseurl }}/assignments) includes materials, and practice [exercises]({{ site.baseurl }}/exercises). When possible we provide output files for exercises to give you a hint what your code should accomplish.
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