how-tos.md

How-Tos

• Accessing Virtual Machine

  • Set up Duo
  • Enroll smart phone in Duo
  • Visit http://classroom.dcmb.med.umich.edu and log in with your sponsored affiliate umich ID and password
  • Once you're in for the first time, change your password to something you will remember
  • You and your group are within a user group within the file system too so that you can access each others files
  • Open Terminal and cd /class/projects/gwc
  • Each group has a folder gwcX with X=[1..7]

• Material you learned in DataCamp

• Directions for using jupyter notebook

  1. https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/tutorial-jupyter-notebook

• Directions for using the virtual machine

• Directions for using command line

  1. http://teohm.com/blog/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in-bash-command-line/
  2. https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/intro-to-bash
  3. Some example commands

  #change directory
  cd 
  
  #change to one directory up
  cd ../ 
  
  #change to specific directory
  cd /path/to/directory/i/want
  
  #print current directory
  pwd
  
  #list what is in directory
  ls
  
  #make new folder
  mkdir <name>
  
  #delete BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS
  rm <file>
  rm -r <directory>
  

• Directions for using vim

  1. https://www.linux.com/learn/vim-101-beginners-guide-vim
  2. https://coderwall.com/p/adv71w/basic-vim-commands-for-getting-started

• Directions for using emacs

  1. http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/emacs.html
  2. http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/

• Directions for using github

  1. Sign up for GitHub
  2. https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world

• Python syntax cheat sheets

  1. https://github.com/justmarkham/python-reference
  2. http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/software/python/py-qrc.html

Other Resources

• Example project
  1. Jupyter notebook
  2. Presentation
• Instructions for coming up with a project
• What are classes?
  1. https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html
  2. http://www.jesshamrick.com/2011/05/18/an-introduction-to-classes-and-inheritance-in-python/
  3. http://python-textbok.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/Classes.html