STAN and other programming languages than R

I have gotten question from students about whether STAN is relevant for the exam. The answer to this is that it is a part of syllabus, and is equally relevant as the other topics. 

It is important to be operational (i.e. to be able to  program) on all topics in the syllabus.

In the course we assume that you are using R and material are provided only in R. In general you are free to choose other programming languages (and many have done so), but you will then need to translate scripts that are given.