Welcome to PSYC.161-WI19
by Yaroslav O. Halchenko
email: class-psyc161@onerussian.com
Where: here in Moore 453, later might move to 303
When: T/Th either 10:30am-12:00pm (need to find some 3h slots - TODO).
Details: https://github.com/dartmouth-pbs/psyc161
Canvas: Maybe
Best Practices for Scientific Computing by Greg Wilson et al., PLOS Biology 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745
Box 1. Summary of Best Practices
by Bruno Oliveira
Reusable (fix-rerun, or might even benefit others)
Flexible (could be generalized/extended -- apply accross studies)
Scalable (worked for >1 subjects, will work for any #)
Exact description of performed actions (was any "Methods" section was sufficient?)
Classes once/twice a week for a total of 3h/week
Hands-on sessions through out the classes
Homework excercises due every week (but the last 4 weeks)
Final project
It must be a new development (i.e. not something you did before this course), although you can choose to improve upon your prior code
Ideally should be something you or someone would end up re-using later on
Contributions to existing scientific projects will be strongly encouraged (benefit from established QA, feedback, distribution channels, etc)
Possible projects will be suggested and discussed in the class on 4-5th week and possible domains are
Team work is encouraged (but contribution ratio will be assessed)
(AKA Introduction)