Week 1 overview¶

Learning Objectives:¶

Course overview and software environment setup

Register for a free GitHub account
Respond to the following Class Community Forum threads on Blackboard:

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

b. Introduce yourself on the Welcome/Introduce Yourself thread
Run through an example Jupyter notebook that has been placed in your /home/<netid>/atm533/week1 folder:

a. Log into our primary Jupyterhub server for the class: https://turing.atmos.albany.edu:8000

b. When prompted, enter your UAlbany NetID (use lower-case) and the associated password

c. In the Jupyterlab instance that should load after several seconds, browse to your atm533 folder

d. Double-click on the NYSM_Hourly_Map.ipynb file

e. Run through the entire notebook cell-by-cell

f. Close and halt the notebook when done

g. Close the browser tab

Note: a fully-executed and rendered version of the NYSM_Hourly_Map notebook appears in the next section of this Jupyterbook!