Lab 1: Getting Started with Tools
Start Jan 15 –- Due Jan 22
Goals
In this lab, students will learn to:
Access the Roar Collab computing environment
Work in a computational notebook
Clone git repository and commit changes
Assign variables in Julia
Organize code into functions
Test functions, and
Reflect on their goals for the course.
Instructions
Request an account on Roar by end of Monday
Perform other one-time setup steps during Wednesday's lab
Follow instructions to start a lab using the following link to create your Lab 1 starter repository
Work through the ex1.jl (a Pluto notebook) and save updates in your personal repository.
Edit the
goals.mdmarkdown file in your personal repository.Once the instrctor and/or TA has provided feedback, review the feedback
Resources
Think Julia: Ch 1 "The Way of the Program"
Julia Data Science: Ch 2.2-2.3, 3-3.2, 3.3-3.5, 4-4.2