Week 2 : Oct 5 - 11

THIS WEEK: The schedule and rooms remain the same, but the Thursday and Friday sessions will swap. Fatiq will lead the discussion section on Thursday, and Carmen will lead the full class on Friday. Everyone is expected to attend both.

Class 4 (Tuesday, October 6)

  1. Fix conda path on the server:
  1. Run
/opt/miniforge3/bin/conda init bash
source ~/.bashrc
  1. Run conda info to confirm.
  1. Covered “Updating values” section of the updating dataframes notes starting from a pre-filled notebook copied from the server.
Preparation for next class (Friday, October 9)

  1. Install VS Code on your local computer if you haven’t already.

  2. Complete the VSCode setup. Make sure to follow every step.

See the setup for the Thursday discussion section below.


Discussion section (Thursday, October 8)

Preparation for discussion section (on Thursday!)

  • Complete steps 1, 2, and 3 of the second discussion section to load the data before the discussion section.

  • Check-in with your discussion section teams via Slack to make sure you’re all ready to go on Thursday! 🙌

See the setup for the Friday lecture above.


Class 5 (Friday, October 9)

  1. Covered conda environments notes on the workbench and slides.
  2. Set up course environment on personal computers.
  3. Student presentations of basic plotting and grouping exercises.
Preparation for next class (Tuesday, October 13)

No setup for next class.


Assignment 1 due this Saturday

Assignment 1 is due by 11:59 pm on Saturday, October 10.