5  Overview

In order to participate in this workshop, you must complete everything in this section and finish with completing the survey at the end. These tasks are meant to provide everyone with the necessary setup and a shared foundation for the workshop.

Depending on your prior knowledge and skills, these tasks could take between 1-2 hrs to finish, so we suggest planning some time to complete them. While many of the tasks are mostly readings, they are important in making sure you get the most out of the workshop.

5.1 How to read this website

We try to be consistent with the way to present certain information in this website. Specifically, there are a few “syntax” type formatting of the text to know about:

  • Folder names always end with /, for example data/ means the data folder.
  • File names always end with their file extension, for example content.md means the file is a Markdown file.

5.2 Summary of tasks

Here’s a quick overview of the tasks you need to do. Specific details about them are found as you work through the tasks.

If you haven’t already, go through the workshop overview section, including the Syllabus, Is this for you?, and Learning design to get an overview of what this workshop contains and the learning design behind the workshop material.

After that, please go through the the pre-workshop tasks designed to establish a shared foundation for the start of the workshop. This includes:

  1. Reading the Code of conduct
  2. Reading the section Version control with Git and GitHub,
  3. Creating a GitHub user account.
  4. Filling out the pre-workshop survey at the end.
Tip

You will be taken through the pre-workshop tasks in order by clicking the arrow at the bottom of each page ➡️