1. Agenda

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1. Agenda#

Agenda#

  • Introduction: Who am I? What’s the goal of this review?

  • Course Page on GitHub

  • Set up Environment: Today we will make sure that everyone has their computational environment set up correctly. This includes Python (via the Anaconda distribution), Visual Studio Code, Git and GitHub, and a WRDS class count for this course.

  • Various Method of Interacting with Python: Throughout the course, we’ll discuss the various ways of interacting with Python: Google Collab, Jupyter Notebooks through the standard Jupyter server, Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code, using IPython in the command line, and running Python scripts directly from the command line (.py files).

  • VS Code vs. Cursor: A comparison of Cursor and VS Code.

  • Environment FAQ: This is a list of common questions and answers about the environment.

  • Individual Help with Setup. Save the last half of the discussion to help students individually with their setup. This is an important purpose of this August review. It is most useful if it is interactive and if students can get one-on-one help before the school year starts.

Homework#

  • Homework 1 Do this on your own after class. Finish setting up your environment. Learn about VS Code and Git on your own.

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