Student Initial Setup¶
We will use Slack for most communication and discussion. Please join the course workspace (uwgda2021.slack.com) with your UW email address. See Canvas announcement for invitation link.
If you are unfamiliar with Slack, see intro material here: https://slack.com/help/articles/218080037-Getting-started-for-new-members
I recommend that you use the standalone desktop app rather than the web interface
Please create a free Github account if you do not have one already: https://github.com/join
Send me a direct slack message with your github username (do this as soon as possible)
I will add you to our Github organization (https://github.com/UW-GDA)
I will distribute materials/assignments using Github Classroom, which will be linked to your Github account.
If all of this is new, don’t worry, we will walk through basic workflows during the first lecture/lab, and you will become more familiar in the coming weeks.
I recommend you apply for the free edu account upgrade (https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new), which will allow you to create unlimited number of private repos with unlimited collaborators.
~~Sign up for a ReviewNB account: https://www.reviewnb.com/~~ (Note Jan 5, 2021: ReviewNB was enabled for the UW-GDA organization, so individual activation should not be necessary)
This is what we will use for interactive, inline discussion on notebooks that you submit
Sign up for the free/educational plan and link to your Github account
If you have not already done so, please sign up for an institutional Google account using your UW email address. I will use Google Docs for some material and Google Drive for some data distribution, and I will only enable access for UW Google accounts (not personal accounts).
Optional: Install/upgrade QGIS on your computer