Programming for Data Science the Polyglot approach: Python R SQL

Outside of Data science, I also co-founded a social enterprise to teach Computer Science to kids Feynlabs. At Feynlabs, we have been working with ways to accelerate learning to Code. One way to do this is to compare and contrast multiple programming languages. This approach makes sense for Data Science also because a learner can potentially approach Data science from many directions. To learn programming for Data Science, it would thus help to build up from an existing foundation they are already familiar with and then co-relate new ideas to this foundation through other approaches. From a pedagogical standpoint, this approach is similar to David Asubel who stressed the importance of prior knowledge in being able to learn new concepts: "The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows."