Chapter 1 Review of Programming

Computers can’t magically process every task we want; they are just mechanical devices driven by electrical impulses. Their true ingenuity comes from people—engineers who build them and programmers who instruct them.

Before we learn the topics in computational statistics, an important question to ask is: how do computers process tasks and how can we write codes that implement those tasks which our computers can process?

In this session, we’ll review the important rules of programming—that are not only relevant to R, but to other programming languages as well.