The course's main objectives are to understand and apply fundamental programming concepts through the R language. To do so and to lay the necessary foundations for programming, the general concepts of computer science will first be introduced, as well as fundamental concepts such as coding and information processing, Operating Systems, Information Systems, Spreadsheets and Databases.

1. Introduction 1.3 - General computer concepts 1.4 - Communication and Networks 1.3 - Structure of the information and its representation 1.4 - Introduction to Operating Systems 1.5 - Software tools 1.6 - Introduction to Programming 2 - Application software: Spreadsheets and Databases 2.1 - Environments 2.2 - Formulas and Functions 2.3 - Expression Builder 2.4 - Events 2.5 - Macro Designer 3 - Introduction to Programming 3.1 - Introduction. Algorithms and programs 3.2 - Compilers and interpreters 3.3 - Structure of a program 3.4 - Variables and constants 3.5 - Notation and vocabulary: characters, line formats and sentences. Comments 3.6 - Operators and Expressions 3.7 - Assignment Statements 3.8 - Input / output statements 3.9 - R Environment 3.10 - Data types in R 3.11 - Conditional statements and loops 3.12 - Functions 3.13 - External data 3.14 - Libraries and Packages

The teaching will be developed focused on the student in order to let him acquire the competences on working efficiently with the most common computing applications. Therefore, the 6 ETCS credits are distributed in the following manner: 1. Theoretical lectures: 1.2 ETCS credits 2. Practice lectures: 1.7 ETCS credits 3. Individual work: 3.1 ETCS credits 4. Tutorials: Individualised assistance (individual tutorials) or group assistance (group tutorials) to students by the lecturer.