C study group 2025

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+description: Study group in January to June 2025 designed for R contributors to develop skills in C programming.
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+# C Study Group for R Contributors 2025
+
+This is a study group meeting once a month for existing/aspiring R contributors that want to gain/refresh basic skills in C programming.
+
+It will run from **January to June 2025**.
+
+<center><img src="woman_studying.jpg" alt="Woman studying in a library with books and a laptop" width="50%"/></center>
+
+## Study materials
+
+The main study materials are from the C sessions of [CS50](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/), Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science. This will be supplemented with a chapter from [Deep R Programming](https://deepr.gagolewski.com/chapter/310-compiled.html) on R's C API.
+
+**Note: the CS50 website will update on January 1st, 2025, with an updated version of the course.**
+
+## Schedule
+
+**Note: this schedule will be updated with the exact dates once they have been decided (see 'Timing' section below). Links will also be updated to the 2025 material once released.**
+
+| Session  | Month   | Resource | Material                                                                                   |
+|------------|------------|------------|-------------------------------------|
+| 1   | Jan | CS50     | [C](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/weeks/1/)                                              |
+| 2   | Feb | CS50     | [Arrays](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/weeks/2/)                                         |
+| 3   | Mar | CS50     | [Algorithms](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/weeks/3/)                                     |
+| 4   | Apr | CS50     | [Memory](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/weeks/4/)                                         |
+| 5   | May | CS50     | [Data Structures](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/weeks/5/)                                |
+| 6   | Jun | Deep R   | [Interfacing compiled code [in R]](https://deepr.gagolewski.com/chapter/310-compiled.html) |
+
+## Commitment
+
+Participants should study the material and attempt the corresponding exercises before each study group meeting.
+
+A suggested weekly schedule for each month for the CS50 material is:
+
+-   Week 1: Watch "Lecture" video (2.5 hr)
+-   Week 2: Watch "Shorts" (\~6 x 10-15 min videos that expand on topics in the lecture) and do one or more of the [additional practice](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/practice/) problems for the corresponding week
+-   Week 3: Watch "Section" (~1hr video going beyond the lecture) and do one or more of the remaining additional practice problems
+-   Week 4: Meet to share solutions to the practice problems. Optional: Do "Problem Set" and submit if doing course for credit, or if you want to receive an automatic grade to check your progress
+
+**Note: we may update the suggestions about which problems to attempt when the CS50 course for 2025 is published.**
+
+The additional practice problems are often harder than the problem set, 
+however we suggest leaving the problem set till after the meetup and attempting 
+this independently (this is expected if you are doing the course for credit).
+
+There is the option to do further study towards a free [certificate](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/certificate/) from Harvard or a verified certificate from edX (~200 USD, financial assistance program available on edX). See the CS50 website for details.
+
+At study group meetings, participants should be prepared to share and discuss their work on the exercises.
+
+## Timing
+
+The book club will typically meet in the 4th week of the month, from January to June 2024.
+
+**In order to determine the best time (or two) to hold the meetings, if you are interested in attending, please fill out [this whenisgood poll](https://whenisgood.net/jqfrg3j) with your availability by MONDAY JANUARY 6TH 2025, 11PM UTC.** 
+
+**This page will be updated later that week with the chosen day/time(s).**
+
+In due course, the [events](/events) page will be updated with actual times in your time zone, along with Google calendar and iCalendar links.
+
+Sign up to attend the sessions on the [R Contributors Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/r-contributors/events/).
+
+Sessions will be recorded and shared on on the [R Contributors Slack](/slack) for people that can't make the meetings.
+
+## Further help
+
+Participants are encouraged to join the #c-study-group channel on the [R Contributors Slack](/slack) to discuss with others as they work through the material. CS50 also has [communities](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/communities/) on multiple platforms that you can connect to.

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 ## Current events
 
-* R Dev Days/Sprints: Collaborative events to work on contributions to R or infrastructure that supports such contribution. Upcoming event(s) [@ SIP](https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-sip-2024/) (Newcastle, UK, October 8-9). [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=096ece8c4dd2994219c1e504a6d474f7964e16fe18eced1dbdb8d5323ee6297b%40group.calendar.google.com) / [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/096ece8c4dd2994219c1e504a6d474f7964e16fe18eced1dbdb8d5323ee6297b%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics).  
+* R Dev Days/Sprints: Collaborative events to work on contributions to R or infrastructure that supports such contribution. 
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 * [R Contributor Office Hours](office-hours): monthly drop-in sessions to help people get started with contributing to R. Discuss work in progress or work together on open bugs/missing translations. [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?cid=c7b298f30426b575f888ee963ec38a6da1ad6d2dbc27f34d501a72f2d8abb1cf@group.calendar.google.com) / [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c7b298f30426b575f888ee963ec38a6da1ad6d2dbc27f34d501a72f2d8abb1cf%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics).  
-* [C Study Group](c-study-group-2024): study group designed for R contributors to develop skills in C programming. [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=ab59b5988cef70d576d045f33a7b4ec633d665afb070aaf696b4b353254c74dc@group.calendar.google.com) / [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/ab59b5988cef70d576d045f33a7b4ec633d665afb070aaf696b4b353254c74dc%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics).
+* [C Study Group](c-study-group-2025) (upcoming - January-June 2025): study group designed for R contributors to develop skills in C programming. Calendar links will be shared when timings are finalised. Please fill in [this whenisgood poll](https://whenisgood.net/jqfrg3j) if you're interested in participating.
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 * [R Contribution Working Group](/working-group): meetings to organize events and work on other infrastructure supporting contributors. [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?cid=nc4tg39nam44itn9uhnf751hbk@group.calendar.google.com) / [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/nc4tg39nam44itn9uhnf751hbk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics). 
 
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 ## Past events
 
-* [C Book Club](c-book-club-2023): book club designed for R contributors to develop skills in C programming.
+* [C Study Group 2024](c-study-group-2024): study group designed for R contributors to develop skills in C programming.
+* [C Book Club 2023](c-book-club-2023): book club designed for R contributors to develop skills in C programming.
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