I think newbies get overwhelmed no matter what — unfortunately. But I have opinions for my specific subsubfield.
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These opinions and advice might not apply to your lab at all sadly...
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Replying to @o_guest @aeronlaffere
any input much appreciated, as always. :) (ur right too re overwhelmed newbies.)
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Replying to @paweljmatusz @aeronlaffere
well if they want to do modelling starting out with Python (or similar, but not Matlab) and C (or similar) will
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have the following side-effects: any other language is easy/easier to learn. I learned R in a day pretty much.
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for somebody doing more behavioural psych I would need to know what they need to do. It's unlikely they need to
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learn C. But Python or R will help them no matter what. The magic is that the more languages you interact with
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the more you learn the underlying concepts and how they work. I can learn any language because I know what the
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concepts are. Loops, continuations, conditionals, etc. Some languages promote some over others, e.g., I can't
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say you should learn Prolog. But really the more you learn the more you generalise. For a PhD student something
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like R & Python are a good combo. But it's all a matter of needs. If you want skills you need many languages.
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