Weekly Tasks
Week 4 Tasks
keep practicing with your preferred python coding environment using the notebooks accompanying each week’s work.
have a go at the new week 4 practice assignment in the GitHub Classroom. Remember these are not assessed, they are for you to practice related coding as the course progresses.
I have decided to include the solution for the week3 optional assignment from GitHub Classroom right away this week which we will go through on Thursday
If you have any problems please do ask by posting a question on the Piazza forum (you can privately message me on there if you do not want to ask a question in puclic). I will be monitoring the forum closely throughout the course and this is the best way to get in touch with me.
Remember that I’ve added some reading and reference material suggestions that some of you may like to refer to for some background biology information. This is entirely optional, you are not expected to read through all these, but may find them useful on occassion during the course. You can find these here.
Week 3 Tasks
Keep practicing with your preferred python coding environment using the notebooks accompanying each week’s work.
Have a go at the new week 3 practice assignment in the GitHub Classroom. Remember these are not assessed, they are for you to practice related coding as the course progresses.
I have included a solution for the week2 optional assignment from GitHub Classroom which we will go through on Thursday
If you have any problems please do ask by posting a question on the Piazza forum (you can privately message me on there if you do not want to ask a question in puclic). I will be monitoring the forum closely throughout the course and this is the best way to get in touch with me.
Remember that I’ve added some reading and reference material suggestions that some of you may like to refer to for some background biology information. This is entirely optional, you are not expected to read through all these, but may find them useful on occassion during the course. You can find these here.
Week 2 Tasks
If you haven’t completed the tasks from weeks 0 and 1 please do so this week.
keep practicing with your preferred python coding environment using the notebooks accompanying each week’s work.
have a go at the new week 2 practice assignment in the GitHub Classroom. Remember these are not assessed, they are for you to practice related coding as the course progresses.
If you have any problems please do ask by posting a question on the Piazza forum (you can privately message me on there if you do not want to ask a question in puclic). I will be monitoring the forum closely throughout the course and this is the best way to get in touch with me.
Remember that I’ve added some reading and reference material suggestions that some of you may like to refer to for some background biology information. This is entirely optional, you are not expected to read through all these, but may find them useful on occassion during the course. You can find these here.
Week 1 Tasks
If you haven’t completed the tasks from week 0 please do so this week.
familiarise yourselves with VSCode whether that’s as a standalone on your laptop/desktop or whether you access it through the Noteable service (you are of course allowed to setup whatever coding environment you like)
experiment with setting up either conda or venv virtual environments for python and installing pacakges
practice using GitHub; the week 0 assignment gives you a basic introduction but the familiarity will help you unlock a lot of it’s useful features.
If you have any problems please do ask by posting a question on the Piazza forum (you can privately message me on there if you do not want to ask a question in puclic). I will be monitoring the forum closely throughout the course and this is the best way to get in touch with me.
I’ve added some reading and reference material suggestions that some of you may like to refer to for some background biology information. This is entirely optional, you are not expected to read through all these, but may find them useful on occassion during the course. You can find these here.
Week 0 Tasks
Setup or familiarise yourself with a preferred coding environment for coding in Python.
Sign up for a GitHub Student account using your University e-mail address e.g.
s12345@ed.ac.uk. This is because access to the GitHub Classroom for this course has an e-mail address roster to limit access; your GitHub e-mail must match.Join the course GitHub Classroom by accepting the first mini-assignment - “Introduction to GitHub” and work through this short excersie. Please note this is not assessed, it is to familiarise yourself with GitHub.
Check that you can login to the course discussion board on Piazza and (only if you would like to), introduce yourself by posting and tagging it with the “introductions” folder and perhaps leave a note of what you are hoping to learn during the course. Note that you can login to Piazza directly here, but may find it easier to click through from the course LEARN page. You should be automatically added to the Piazza class list from EUCLID.
If you have any problems please do ask by posting a question on the Piazza forum (you can privately message me on there if you do not want to ask a question in puclic). I will be monitoring the forum closely throughout the course and this is the best way to get in touch with me.