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

  2. Respond to the GitHub User ID Forum Week 1 Community Forum thread:

    a. Post your GitHub ID that you created in the previous step

    b. Accept the invitation to join the ATM433/533 GitHub organization

  3. Reading material: Irving, 2016

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

    a. Access the class Jupyterhub server on Turing

    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

  5. 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

  6. Take a look at Pythia Foundations and Pythia Cookbooks