How to Prepare and Teach an R Lesson by Monica Thieu. Visit https://rstats.ai/nyr/ to learn more. Abstract: R continues to be a popular programming language that consistently attracts new users. Effective teaching of R concepts and techniques is critical for new R users to gain basic competence quickly, and ultimately stick with the language beyond the growing pains of a novice learner. I will discuss principles of scientific teaching and educational psychology, and how incorporating these ideas can help us teach coding more effectively. Attendees will learn how to apply these principles to create, revise, and deliver an R lesson on the topic of their choice. Bio: Monica is a PhD student in the Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the Dept of Psychology at Columbia University. She uses R with a combination of behavioral and fMRI data to investigate how people categorize ambiguous social and emotional experiences. She is a founding member of a team in the Dept of Psychology that has taught introductory R to student researchers since 2018. Twitter: https://twitter.com/monica_too_ Presented at the 2020 R Conference | New York (August 15th, 2020)