Day 8 - Thursday, April 24, 2014

Summary: Widgets and animations, Error handling


1. Open terminal, create new directory for Widgets and ErrorHandling work, practice workflow:

$ cd PHYS202-S14
$ git pull origin master
$ git status
$ mkdir Widgets
$ mkdir ErrorHandling
$ ipynb

2. Navigate to the Widgets directory and create a new notebook called WidgetsTour with title cell (Heading 1) Widgets and Interactive Data Analysis.

3. Open "Widgets and Interactive Data Analysis" webpage on PolyLearn in one Browser Window. Follow the self-guided tour, entering code into your WidgetsTour notebook as you go. Add markdown cells with your notes, if you like.

No copy/paste!

Type the commands yourself to get the practice doing it. This will also slow you down so you can think about the commands and what they are doing as you type them.

4. Navigate to the ErrorHandling directort and create a new notebook called ErrorHandlingTour with title cell (Heading 1) Error handling.

5. Open "Error handling" webpage on PolyLearn in one Browser Window. Follow the self-guided tour, entering code into your ErrorHandlingTour notebook as you go. Add markdown cells with your notes, if you like.

No copy/paste!

Type the commands yourself to get the practice doing it. This will also slow you down so you can think about the commands and what they are doing as you type them.

6. At the end of the self-guided tour open the "Error Handling Exercises" page on PolyLearn and create new notebook ErrorHandlingExercises. Start working on the exercises.
They will be due as HW by Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 11:59pm.

7. Before leaving, save your work in the notebook, then practice your workflow:

$ git status
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "<summary message goes here>"
$ git push origin master
$ git status

Check github to be sure the work got there so you have it for the weekend.


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