Sure. But this ignores that you need to know what you are doing, when you code your statistics in R. If that's not what you are good at, it is better to stick to what you know. IMHO (I am guessing this is what Andy means)
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So for Christos' teaching skills, I would say I do not have direct evidence as he took over recently. Most of my colleagues taught coding at UCL were taught under Keith. But I do know Christos is skilled. Also I thought Keith was good when I was 1 of his students ~ a decade ago.
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For my colleagues retention of their coding skills, like with any skill, you need to keep at it, and they manage it. You can't learn piano as a child, stop, and then try again 20 years later expecting to be just as good.
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To clarify, there are many PhD students in my lab some of which have BScs from our department and they code every day and well. In fact one of the best coders was an UG in this department and even published a paper in his final year — now doing a PhD without an MSc.
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Hmm so I guess the only way to improve coding skill in students, is to give more coding projects? Then they are forced to learn?
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I'm actually asking how well students who are not studying computer science are able to learn programming and hoping to get advice on how to improve training for German students. But no need to answer, if you feel this question was offensive...
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I have answered in what is now a side-thread. I can link you to my materials which I have used in the past if you're interested. I have taught UG and PG students the basics of coding and neural networks in a single day with success. But I do not consider myself an expert on this.
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I'm just a person who has tried and succeeded with teaching some coding to small enough groups. If you want research into how to teach big groups how to code, esp big groups who don't know linear algebra (I assume), then I'm not your go-to cos I do not do/have not done that.
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