# Week 1 overview

## Learning Objectives:
Course overview and software environment setup

## Learning and Participation Activities with Due Dates (Tuesday, Aug. 29, 3PM EDT):
1. Register for a free [GitHub account](https://github.com/join)
1. Respond to the [GitHub User ID Forum Week 1 Community Forum thread](https://brightspace.albany.edu/d2l/le/883753/discussions/topics/1276259/View):

    a. Post your GitHub ID that you created in the previous step
    
    b. Accept the invitation to join the [ATM433/533 GitHub organization](https://github.com/DAES433533)

1. Reading material: [Irving, 2016](https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00010.1)

1. Clone the `week1` directory in `/spare11/atm533/ktyle` as demonstrated in class:

    a. Access the [class Jupyterhub server on Turing](https://turing.atmos.albany.edu:8000)
    
    b. In the *Launcher*, open up a *Terminal* session
    
    c. cd to your `atm533` folder
    
    d. Type `git clone /spare11/atm533/ktyle/week1`
    
    e. You should then have a `week1` folder visible in your `atm533` directory, which contains one Jupyter notebook
    
1. Run the example Jupyter notebook within the `week1` folder

    a. In the Jupyterlab directory browser, navigate to your `atm533/week1` folder
    
    b. In that directory, run the **NYSM_Hourly_Map.ipynb** notebook to completion
    
1. Take a look at [Pythia Foundations](https://foundations.projectpythia.org) and [Pythia Cookbooks](https://cookbooks.projectpythia.org)