Lab 0 - Installation and Setup¶

This week, your only task is to do your best installing the software we will need for this course.

Important

This guide has been (lightly) adapted from the UBC-Vancouver MDS Install stack under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

Windows and macOS¶

Below are links to the software installation guide used for DATA 301 for the operating systems we support. We provide these installation instructions to our students on the first day of the program. Original version written by Anmol Jawandha, updated version by Tomas Beuzen, Rodolfo Lourenzutti, Joel Ostblom & Tiffany Timbers.

Other operating systems¶

If you are planning on attempting to complete this course on operating systems other than the ones listed above, contact Pat immediately to see if this course is suitable for you.

Test the ‘Accept the lab’¶

Contact your TA to perform this operation with them the first time.

To accept this lab on GitHub Classroom, you must click this link. A short JupiterLab program is available to test you can run it and submit once tested.

Here is a video (made by Dr. Moosvi) showing you how to accept the assignment and start working on it. You only need to start the video at 2:50 min.