Programming for psychologists

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Programming for psychologists
Leerdoelen	After the course, the student knows: - the basics of using a programming language relevant for Psychology, - data structures, such as scalars, vectors, matrices, and data tables, - ways to control program flow, such as conditionals and loops, - the basics of functions, including arguments and return values, - how to plan writing a complete program, - the basics of debugging code, - good programming practices, such as commenting code and abstraction.
Omschrijving	Psychologists increasingly rely on computers for all aspects of research. Programming is a useful skill for a psychological researcher, particularly for data analysis, modeling and simulation, and creating experiments. Having basic programming skills will open up a wide array of possibilities for researchers, whereas not understanding programming places limits on what a researcher can accomplish without the help of others. Programming for Psychologists is a basic course in programming, intended to introduce students to fundamental ideas in programming, including planning, writing, and debugging programs. It is intended that by the end of the course, the student will be able to independently create a fully functioning, moderately complex program that does something useful, and will have enough knowledge of programming basics that they can extend their knowledge unsupervised. Having followed the course Experimental skills (PSB3E-M15) is an advantage, as some of the assignments will build on the work done there. The ES course is *not* a prerequisite to be able to follow this course. In this course, we will use the language Python.
Uren per week	4
Onderwijsvorm	hoorcollege, practicum
Toetsvorm	practicum, programmeeropdrachten ((Grade will be determined based on the average of homework assignments and one final assignment, equally weighted. If the final grade is a 5, an additional assignment can be requested to increase the grade to a 6.))
Vaksoort	bachelor
Coördinator	dr. M.M. Span
Docent(en)	J. de Jong, MSc. ,dr. M.M. Span , W.R. van der Mijn, MSc. , A. Vilotijevic, MSc.
Verplichte literatuur	Titel Auteur ISBN Prijs Will be announced via Nestor.
Entreevoorwaarden
Opmerkingen	Maximum number of students who can participate: 50
Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Ba psychologie (EN)  (Ba3 (EN) psychologie) 3 semester II a keuze Ba psychologie (NL)  (Ba3 psychologie) 3 semester II a keuze