EDUC M260B

Fundamentals of Programming

Education · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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(Formerly numbered 260B.) Second course in programming/data science sequence designed for students who do not have programming background. Uses primarily R programming language. Organized around practical programming skills/concepts that are fundamental across modern object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Python, Javascript). Topics include organizing files, folders, and scripts; reading (importing) and writing (exporting) data; using Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration; iteration (e.g., loops); conditional execution; writing functions; strings and regular expressions. These general programming skills are prerequisite for flashier data science applications (e.g., web-scraping, interactive maps). Students become proficient in programming skills/concepts through weekly problem sets, completed in groups.

S/U or letter grading.

When it runs

Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course M260A.

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EDUC M260A

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

EDUC M260B

EDUC M260AIntroduction to Programming and Data Management

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.