Course Setup Checklist

This course requires students to use a variety of free, cloud-based tools for programming in Python, completing labs, and submitting work. This document outlines a step-by-step process of setting up your programming environment, which because it uses the cloud will be accessible from anywhere you have a web browser and access to the internet.

Every student in the course is required to setup their own environment. The process is simple and straightforward.

Procedure at a Glance

You should complete these steps in the following order:

1. Signup for a GitHub Account.
   You will use GitHub and your GitHub account to turn in work you complete in the course
2. Setup Github Classroom.
   Github classroom distributes the code samples, labs, and homework assignments used in this course to your GitHub account.
3. Signup for Azure Notebooks.
   Azure notebooks is a cloud-based programming environment. You will use it to code in Python from within your web browser.
4. Clone your Git repository into Azure notebooks.
   In this final step, you will clone the code from your GitHub account into the Azure Notebooks environment.
5. Test your Setup.
   You’re ready to test your setup by committing code using git from the command line.