Core Topics

• Using the bash shell
  • The Interactive Shell
    • Getting started
    • Variables
    • Commands
      • Tab completion
      • Command History and Editing
      • Command Substitution
    • Shortcuts
      • Aliases – command shortcuts
      • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Basic File Management
    • Files
    • Navigation
    • Filename Globbing
    • Quoting
    • Basic utilities
    • Streams, Pipes, and Redirects
      • Standard Redirection
      • The xargs and tee commands
  • Regular Expressions
    • Overview and core syntax
    • Character sets and character classes
    • Location-specific matches
    • Repetitions, Grouping, and References
    • Greedy matching
    • ed, grep, sed, awk, and perl
      • grep
      • sed and awk
      • perl
  • Processes
    • Monitoring
    • Signaling
    • Job Control
      • Listing and killing jobs
      • Monitoring jobs and memory use
      • Nicing a job
      • Screen
  • Shell programming
    • Functions
    • If/then/else
    • For loops
    • How much shell scripting should I learn?
  • Working with documents
  • Exercises
• Introduction to Git
  • What is version control?
  • Core concepts
  • Local, single-user, linear workflow
    • git init: create an empty repository
    • git add: add content to the staging area
    • git commit: permanently record our changes in the repository
    • git log: what has been committed so far
    • git diff: what have I changed?
    • The cycle of git: work, add, commit, ...
    • git log revisited
    • git mv and rm: moving and removing files
  • Local, single-user, branching workflow
  • Using remotes as a single user
  • Conflict management
  • Exercise: Single remote with shared access
  • Learn more
• Statistical analysis of fMRI data
• Introduction to Python
  • Introduction
    • Objects
    • Variables
    • Modules, files, packages, import
    • Style
  • Data Structures
    • Numbers
    • Strings
    • Tuples
    • List
    • Dictionaries
    • Sets
    • And more
  • Built-in functions
    • zip
    • enumerate
  • Control flow
    • If-then-else
    • For-loops (and list comprehension)
    • Functions
  • Classes
  • Data formats
    • CSV
    • JSON
    • HTML
  • Standard library
    • os
    • re
• Text Mining
  • Websites
    • Webscraping
    • Webservices
  • Data serialization
    • Python object
      • XML
      • JSON
      • YAML
      • Questions
    • Reading and writing JSON
  • Word Vectors
    • Bag of words model
    • Term-document matrix
  • Exercise: US Senate tweets
  • Links
    • Webservices
    • Serialization