# Day 3: Wednesday, 4 June

Today's tutorials will occur along three tracks, each devoted to a different programming language, running concurrently. Each tab below corresponds to one of these tracks. The tutorials associated with each track are listed on the relevant tab.

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{% tab title="MATLAB" %}

### Basic MATLAB 9:30 - 10:30 EDT

An introduction to using MATLAB on Oscar. Topics covered include: working with MATLAB interactively on Oscar, using the MATLAB Desktop, and using MATLAB in batch jobs.

[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G_DYrf9jWdy3jukjgk1O5So5Bo5i4PjG2izzryQ4x2Q/edit?usp=sharing) | [exercises](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QnbJlD5b3_Q6RkgfCBjJ1b2gc4LWSj2huFtdQfdZ8mA/edit?usp=sharing) | [video](https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=88fa9718-0367-4f27-95ae-b2fa010dddd6)

### Advanced MATLAB 11:00 - 12:00 EDT

An introduction to programming and basic performance optimization and parallel computing techniques in MATLAB. Topics covered include: MATLAB scripting, using MATLAB's debugger, code profiling, parallel for-loops and efficient matrix-vector storage and operations.

[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Tdh-rLR7w45UlGSHKoc_NKAZxlFce01NUassKp26VrQ/edit?usp=sharing) | [repo](https://github.com/phall-brown/MATLAB-examples.git) | [video](https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8a8329d3-990a-4573-ac5e-b2f20132a505)
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{% tab title="Python" %}

### Python Programming Basics Part I 9:00 - 10:15 EDT *\*Hybrid\**

*Description coming soon!*

slides

### Python Programming Basics Part II 10:45 - 12:00 EDT *\*Hybrid\**

*Description coming soon!*

slides

### Exploratory Data Analysis Part I 1:30 - 2:45 EDT *\*Hybrid\**

*Description coming soon!*

slides

### Exploratory Data Analysis Part II 3:15 - 4:30 EDT *\*Hybrid\**

*Description coming soon!*

slides
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="R" %}

### An Introduction to R Programming | 9:00 - 10:00 EDT

This session will cover an introduction to R, including data types and data formats, useful R functions, writing your own functions, importing and exporting data, and installing packages.

[notebook](http://ccv.jupyter.brown.edu/hub/user-redirect/git-pull?repo=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcompbiocore%2Fccv_bootcamp_R\&urlpath=lab%2Ftree%2Fccv_bootcamp_R%2FR_Bootcamp_Intro_R.ipynb\&branch=main) | [repo](https://github.com/compbiocore/ccv_bootcamp_R/blob/main/R_Bootcamp_Intro_R.ipynb) | [video](https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a3a188a3-9bf1-4bb7-89b9-b2fe01242f3d)

### TidyVerse and ggplot2 | 10:00 - 11:00 EDT

This session will cover data wrangling (filtering, reshaping, joining) using Tidyverse, and data visualization using ggplot2.

[notebook](http://ccv.jupyter.brown.edu/hub/user-redirect/git-pull?repo=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcompbiocore%2Fccv_bootcamp_R\&urlpath=lab%2Ftree%2Fccv_bootcamp_R%2FR_Bootcamp_Intro_R.ipynb\&branch=main) | [repo:tidyverse](https://github.com/compbiocore/ccv_bootcamp_R/blob/main/R_Bootcamp_Tidyverse.ipynb) | [repo:ggplot2](https://github.com/compbiocore/ccv_bootcamp_R/blob/main/R_ggplot2.ipynb) | [video:tidyverse](https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=89bf20d1-a752-4135-8803-b2fe01241541\&start=97) | [video:ggplot2](https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=89bf20d1-a752-4135-8803-b2fe01241541\&start=2018.9865739013337)

### Reproducible Research with Containers and R | 11:00 - 12:00 EDT

This session will cover the use of several R packages that can aid in making your research reproducible, as well as the use of docker/apptainer images to package applications and their dependencies ensuring software consistency across users/platforms.

[notebook](http://ccv.jupyter.brown.edu/hub/user-redirect/git-pull?repo=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcompbiocore%2Fccv_bootcamp_Reproducibility_R\&urlpath=lab%2Ftree%2Fccv_bootcamp_Reproducibility_R%2Freproducibility_in_R.ipynb\&branch=main) | [repo](https://github.com/compbiocore/ccv_bootcamp_Reproducibility_R) | [video](https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=89bf20d1-a752-4135-8803-b2fe01241541\&start=3646.775200045333)
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