If you have questions about this week's lab ANY TA for this class can help you with any problems.
Today's lesson takes a departure from your usual self-guided reading/doing/struggling. Instead, I'll be talking at you for a while because this stuff can get real confusing. We're going to cover what you need to know in order to use the command line effectively.
This lecture is based on your readings for the week:
- Tracy Osborn, Really Friendly Command Line Intro
- Software Carpentry, The Shell
- Optional: Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line
- Log into SCI JupyterHub and start a terminal
- Type in
git clone https://github.com/pitt-sci-cmpinf0010/Command-Line.gitand hit the enter key - This should download a folder to your JupyterHub with the lab (it should be called
Command-Line) - Double click the new folder in the file explorer. You should see the lab contents.
- Launch the
Lab-Lesson.ipynbnotebook to review the lesson
Use Binder!
Important: Binder does not always save your work. If you need to stop working on your lab for more than 30 minutes, you need to download your exercises notebook to you computer. Then, you can reupload it again later to continue your work.
Click here:
This week you get a little bit of a break. There are some exercises for you to complete in class to get more familiar with the command line; however, you don't need to submit these exercises. Instead, make yourself a GitHub account in order to prepare for next week's lab. Get the URL to your profile, and submit it to Canvas.
- Go to github.com
- Follow the instructions to create an account
- name your account something you don't mind sharing with future employers
- Don't forget to email-verify your account and/or set up 2 factor authentication (if you want).
- Submit the URL for your profile on Canvas. This quora page has instructions if you are having trouble finding the URL for your profile.
- You're done!