Getting started¶

Using this Web site¶

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Preparation¶

Read

Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code by Helen Shen. Nature. 2014 Nov 6;515(7525):151-2. doi: 10.1038/515151a. PMID: 25373681

UPDATE: now I’d probably add Programming: Pick up Python by Jeffrey M. Perkel. Nature. 2015 February 5;518:125–6.doi:10.1038/518125a. PMID:25653001 too

Tech prep

Be sure you have a modern, updated browser on your system. Preferably Chrome or Firefox.

Register and do the follow-up activation at SourceLair.

Register for Sagemath Cloud.

Be sure to have a good text editor on your computer. Sounds like you may have been using AquaMac in the past and so this shouldn’t be a problem. I highly recommend Sublime Text. However, for what we’ll be doing Thursday, even TextWrangler on a Mac will be sufficient. For those not on a Mac, I’d recommend Sublime Text or Notepad++ or jEdit.

Intro to technology¶

We’ll use as a group two technologies today.

The idea for using cloud-based tools is to make it easier upfront to get coding and then you can modify what you use as you develop your coding workflow preferences. (Sorry for needing two, but finding a good interface that has all the features desired and works on the Upstate network is not easy.)