Sunday, April 5, 2015

Week 0: To do list and progress notes

Coursera:

Programming:

Rice University's Introduction to Interactive Programming Part 1: Done
  • covered event driven programming and basic Python 2.x syntax
Rice University's Introduction to Interactive Programming Part 2: In progress
  • studied lists, made a simple memory game using Rice University's simplegui module in Codeskulptor


University of Michigan's Programming for Everybody: Nearly done
  • covered basic Python syntax, learned how to use Python to search through text files


Edx:

Computer Science:
CS50: In progress
  • need to finish week 0 and week 1 assignments


To do list for the near future:
  • brush up on statistics
  • learn Java
  • get an internship, hopefully a position that will develop my programming skills in any way whatsoever
  • build a new desktop computer, the Asus T100 is finally feeling limited as a primary work machine
  • go to DC meetups for programmers and data scientists
To do list for the long term:
  • learn R
  • get better at using Excel for basic data analysis
  • brush up on calculus
  • learn HTML and CSS
  • Contribute to open source projects