OSS 2014 programming resources

Online courses and quick lessons to introduce you to command line, R and git/github

• Beginner tutorial for github (highly recommended for first timers!), found here
• Animated git branching tutorial, found here
• Code school has two courses: a beginner course for R and Git, found here
• Very extensive online book to teach you CLI from scratch, found here
• Code Academy doesn't have anything on CLI or R, but does have nice tutorials on how to use APIs, Python, etc. Found here. May be useful later in the course
• Vim Adventures is an addictive way to learn to use Vim, found here
• Lynda has a number of really good tutorial videos covering CLI, many programming languages, and the basic conceptual background. Really really useful for people without CS backgrounds. Found here

Also googling cli tutorial or cli beginner, etc. often turns up good resources.

Well-documented workflow example for spatial analysis. They manage to use R, python, SQL, and GIS: here

If you want to test your data-mining skillz. Go to Kaggle, which holds competitions with prizes.