Lecture 17: Lab 8, slower

• Complex

• Extended to Wednesday 6pm

• Square brackets ([something]) and angle brackets (<something>) in documentation generally mean “replace this”.

  • In Python code, they are actual symbols.

• A trailing slash (<something>/) indicates that thing is a folder/directory.

Structure¶

Your [username].github.io folder should look like this:

It should be outside of your computing-in-context/ folder (or equivalent).

Recap¶

• Lab 8 prep

• Lab 8

Version control¶

When you’re editing a file and make a mistake, what do you do?

Changes over time (history)

Undo/redo are useful

How would you try out a change that touches multiple files?

• Follow directions closely

• Try and understand what’s going on

  • …instead of just copy and paste

  • If it doesn’t make sense on the first time through, start again from the beginning.