Brian-- I would heartily endorse your recommendation for teaching R to younger folk. 4-5 years ago I did a 5-hour workshop introducing R to about 20 students in grades 10-12. I think it was quite successful--at least they invited me back to do another one the following year!
I wish I had had your book! --Chris Ryan SUNY Upstate Medical University and Binghamton University Brian Dennis wrote: > Here is a book that introduces R programming for use in high school or > college math and science courses: > > https://www.crcpress.com/The-R-Student-Companion/Dennis/p/book/9781439875407 > > The book is written for absolute beginners in programming concepts and is > one of the most elementary books about R available. The focus of the book > is not statistics per se but rather scientific graphing, calculation, > modeling, and simulation. Collected reviews of the book can be found here: > > https://webpages.uidaho.edu/~brian/reviews_of_RSC.pdf > > The topics are very vanilla R, no RStudio, no ggplot, no dplyr, etc. The > choice of topics was deliberate so as not to overwhelm students. The math > level is high school algebra. The scientific examples treated are quite > real and engaging. > > With the move in education toward trying to teach "coding" in schools, one > might ask why not use Python, Java, C+, etc. The answer is clear: > students can do more cool stuff with R with much less code and computer > science overhead. As well, the supporting online instructional > environment, with zillions of websites, tutorials, and videos, is hard to > beat. For future STEM workers, R is the ideal gateway drug! > > I have even taught graphing and calculating in R to elementary school > students. They are eager and enthusiastic and take to it as fast as the > older students. > > Readin', Ritin', Rithmetic, and R! > > Brian Dennis, Professor > University of Idaho USA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
