Self-Guided Trainings

NOTE: These are recommended materials. Feel free to follow-up with DSST members to make sure content makes sense to you.

General

Top recommended books to learn all the typical neuroimaging and data science topics in a self-guided way.

• Scientific Computing For Cognitive Neuroscience: Tutorials and Practical Applications
• Data Science for Neuroimaging: An Introduction (by Ariel Rokem and Tal Yarkoni)
• Better Code, Better Science (by Russ Poldrack)

Below is everything else.

Essentials: Markdown and Command Line

• Markdown
• Learn the command line (for Linux and Mac OS X)
  • This Book, just Chapter 1
  • Practice
  • BASH Scripting
• "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" from MIT

Science

• fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging)
  • A nice intro
  • Coursera

Programming

• BASH Scripting - command line scripting and advanced command line
• BASH Argument Parsing:
  • positional parameters
  • shift
  • getopts
• Foundational programming concepts
• Python
  • Coursera
  • Code Academy
  • Main Site
• Git
  • A great git cheat sheet (provided by GitLab)
  • A brief intro video
  • Version Control with Git
  • Quick Explanation
  • A Tutorial
  • GitHub-specific trainings
• Object-oriented programming (OOP)
  • OOP
  • Motivation
  • OOP terms
• MATLAB
• R Bootcamp

Neuroimaging Tools

• HCP Pipelines
• FSL
• FreeSurfer
• ANTs

Databasing

• SQL
• Neo4j
  • intro training
  • Webinars
  • Examples

• Last updated: 2025-08-11
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