Scheduling information
Schedule
Week 1
Week 2
| Mon Aug 31: | Assignment 1 Bash shell tutorial and exercises (see details below) | |
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| Fri Sep 4: | Lab 1 Using Git and Quarto and problem set submission | |
| Assignment 1 TBD: Regex tutorial and exercises (see details below) |
Week 3
| Wed Sep 9: | Event 2 (Optional) Library Introduction to LaTeX with Overleaf session (12-1 pm) | |
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| Fri Sep 11: | Problem_Set 1 Problem Set 1 |
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Exams
These are in-person only.
- 243A exam: Monday October 12 in class
- Review session October 9 in section.
- 243B exam: Monday November 23 in class.
- Review session November 20 in section.
Notes on assignments and activities
- Optional library LaTeX session: I highly recommend (in particular if you are a Statistics graduate student) that you know how to create equations in LaTeX. Even if you develop your documents using Quarto, Jupyter notebooks, R Markdown, etc. rather than LaTeX-based documents, LaTeX math syntax is the common tool for writing math syntax that will render beautifully.
- Optional Lab A0 software/command line help session: (August 28 in lab room) Help session for installing software, accessing a UNIX-style command line, and basic command line usage (e.g., the UNIX basics tutorial). You can show up at any time (unlike all remaining labs). You should have software installed, be able to access the command line, and have started to become familiar with basic command line usage before class on Monday August 31.
- Lab A1: (September 4) First section/lab on using Git, setting up your GitHub repository for problem sets, and using Quarto to generate dynamic documents. Please come only to the section you are registered for given space limits in the room, unless you have talked with Chris and have his permission.
- Bash shell tutorial and exercises: (by Monday August 31) Read through this tutorial on using the bash shell. You can skip the pages on “Regular Expressions” and “Managing Processes”, so just work on the first four pages (“Overview” through “Shell Programming”). Work through the first 10 problems in the exercises and submit your answers via Gradescope. This is not a formal problem set, so you don’t need to worry about formatting nor about explaining/commenting your answers, nor do you need to put your answers in your GitHub class repository. In fact it’s even fine with me if you hand-write the answers and scan them to an electronic document. I just want to make sure you’ve worked through the tutorial. I’ll be doing demonstrations on using the bash shell in class starting on August 28, so that will be helpful as you work through the tutorial.