The Coding Outreach Group (COG) is a student-led organization aiming to make computer programming goals approachable and achievable for the Temple community. We host semi-annual coding bootcamps for beginners, hands-on skill workshops for intermediate to advanced coders, and regular office hours for people of all skill levels to find solutions to their coding problems. Our educational materials cover a wide range of topics, are free, open-source, and hosted here on our webpage as tutorials so learners can progress at their own pace. Our materials are self-generated by community members, too, so there's always a person you can reach out to when questions inevitably arise.
Contact
To contact the board, send us an email. To contact our 150+ member community, join our slack channel. To stay up to date, join our google groups. To enter our office hours, join our zoom room. To access our content, check our youtube channel.
Office Hours
Office Hours are held both in-person and virtually on a weekly basis during the school as a means for individuals to seek support and guidance for coding related questions that they've encountered. Additionally, Tom Olino will be joining us starting this semester to offer guidance for any statistics related questions as well! Office hours during the Fall 2024 semester are scheduled Thursdays from 10:00am to 11:00am EST. You can attend in-person (Weiss 645) or via zoom.
COG Personnel
Contributors
Current Board
Former Board
Founders
Tutorials
Summer Workshops
Workshops focus on a specific research skill or topic and aim to have participants actively involved. These workshops try to be as hands-on as possible with the goal of teaching new skills and techniques to people who already have some coding experience.
2024
Topics: Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R, Representational Similarity Analysis in R, Metropolis Markov Chain Monte Carlo in R, Network Enrichment Significance Testing, Geospatial Analysis & Cartography in R
2023
Topics: GIMME, Intro to Machine Learning in Python, Intro to jsPsych, Building Functions & Iterating in R, Text Analysis in R, Dyadic Analysis in R, Intro to SQL
2022
Topics: Git/Github Pages, Data Wrangling in R, Data visualization in R, Neuroimaging in Python, PsychoPy, Representational similarity analysis in R, Natural Language Processing, Javascript Integration with Qualtrics
2021
Topics: Jupyter Notebook, Git/Github, Psychopy, Neuroimaging in python, Data visualization in R, Representational similarity analysis, Using linux machines & Owlsnest HPC, BIDS/Heudiconv/fmriprep
2020
Topics: Jupyter Notebook, Git/Github, Using publicly available datasets, Plotting data in R, Psychopy, JavaScript and jsPsych, Neuroimaing in python, Representational similarity analysis