Week 1, Day 4: Thursday, July 20
Synopsis
Day 4 begins with an introduction to how the Internet works, a topic that will recur when we turn to publishing in Week 3. This day also introduces the version management system Git (which, among other things, hosts all materials for our Institute). We conclude with more advanced Python activities within Jupyter Notebook.
Outcome goals
- Understand how communication over the Internet works
- Understand why version control matters
- Understand the Git workflow
- Become comfortable with command line Git
- Know how to clone a Git repo
- Process text corpora with Python
Legend
- Presentation: by instructors
- Discussion: instructors and participants
- Talk lab: participants discuss or plan in small groups
- Code lab: participants code alone or in small groups
9:00–10:30: How the Internet works 1
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 min | Hostnames and DNS | Discussion |
| 20 min | IP and Internet addresses | Discussion |
| 25 min | Network communication | Presentation |
| 25 min | Network protocols | Code lab |
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30: Git 1
Git is a tool for managing, sharing, and creating content, particularly code. This tutorial aims to acclimate users to command line Git, which bypasses the GUI and provides both more power and more flexibility.
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15 min | What is Git? | Presentation |
| 30 min | Setting your identity and creating a repo | Code lab |
| 30 min | Editing, adding, and committing | Code lab |
| 15 min | Synching and reverting | Code lab |
12:30–2:00: Lunch
2:00–3:30: Python clinic 2
After practicing first with processing single documents using Python, we move to processing a corpus (in this case, of U.S. Presidential inaugural addresses) with NLTK.
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 min | Review | Presentation |
| 25 min | Processing single files | Code lab |
| 20 min | Processing a corpus | Code lab |
| 25 min | Troubleshooting | Code lab |
3:30–4:00: Coffee break
4:00–5:30: Review
Review
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 90 min | Review | Discussion |
We’ll end each day with a request for feedback, based on a general version of the day’s outcome goals, and we’ll try to adapt on the fly to your responses. Please complete Week 1, Day 4 feedback (just copy and paste it into a plain-text document) and email your response to Kaylen at kaylensanders@pitt.edu with the subject heading “Week 1, Day 4 feedback”.