This Graduate level lecture course is designed for 1st & 2nd year students in the Masters in Bioinformatics Program. Students will learn the programming skills necessary to be competent in writing programming to analyze primary research data. Specifically, students will expand on their understanding of basic unix command line programming and further develop fluency in programming languages, including Python and R (specifically analytics not visualization). This course will involve considerable practical application, and students will learn to analyze data critically, design experiments, collect and interpret data, create graphs and figures, and present their results in oral presentations.