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Programming for Economists - Period 6 Course Overview
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Economics
Instruction in: English
Course Code: E_EBE1_PFE
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 100
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
DESCRIPTION
This course will provide an introductory guide for programming in R. We will focus on teaching introductory coding skills that are relevant for data science and research applications. The object-oriented programming skills taught in this course are easily portable to other commonly-used object-oriented languages such as Python and C++. We will address basic looping, functions, data visualization, and data management.
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