| Date |
Topics |
Readings |
Lecture Videos and Notes |
| Thursday, Sep 3 |
Course introduction; Administrivia; VirtualBox; Introduction to the Linux Command Line |
Introduction to UNIX Commands (recommended); Survival guide for UNIX newbies (recommended); GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary (recommended) |
Video: Course Introduction; Video: Setting up your VM; Video: Introduction to the Command Line; Slides: Command Line |
| Tuesday, Sep 8 |
Introduction to text editing in emacs |
emacs reference sheet (recommended) |
Video: Introduction to emacs |
| Thursday, Sep 10 |
Introduction to text editing in vim |
vim help documentation (recommended); vim cheat sheet (recommended); Practical vim by Drew Neil (recommended) |
Video: Introduction to vim; jabberwocky.txt |
| Tuesday, Sep 15 |
emacs and vim, cont'd |
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HW1 (Due Sep 18) |
| Thursday, Sep 17 |
Discussing the Lyman-break galaxy data |
Wikipedia page on Lyman-break galaxies |
Video: Introduction to the Lyman-break galaxy data |
| Tuesday, Sep 22 |
Lyman-break data, cont'd |
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| Thursday, Sep 24 |
Lyman-break data, cont'd |
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HW2 (Due Oct 2) |
| Tuesday, Sep 29 |
Version control with git; Lyman-break data, cont'd |
Pro Git by Chacon and Straub (recommended) |
Video: introduction to git;
Slides: git
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| Thursday, Oct 1 |
git cont'd; Lyman-break data, cont'd |
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| Tuesday, Oct 6 |
Shell scripting with bash |
Introduction to Bash Scripting from the Linux Documentation Project (recommended); Data Science at the Command Line by J. Janssens (recommended); S. Das (2005, 2012). Your UNIX: the Ultimate Guide. McGraw-Hill. (recommended) |
HW3 (Due Oct 16);
Video: Introduction to shell scripting;
Slides: shell scripting
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| Thursday, Oct 8 |
Shell scripting, cont'd |
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| Tuesday, Oct 13 |
Regular expressions and grep |
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Video: Introduction to Regular Expressions in grep;
Slides: Regexes in grep
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| Thursday, Oct 15 |
Regexes, cont'd |
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| Tuesday, Oct 20 |
Distributed computing with Slurm |
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HW4 (Due Oct 30); Video: Slurm on the UWStatistics HPC Cluster; Notes and links |
| Thursday, Oct 22 |
Distributed computing with Slurm, cont'd |
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Video: short introduction to sed and awk; Slides |
| Tuesday, Oct 27 |
Distributed computing on CHTC |
CHTC Guide; CHTC/HTCondor manual |
Video: Introduction to CHTC (guest lecture by Christina Koch and Jess Vera) |
| Thursday, Oct 29 |
Distributed computing on CHTC, cont'd |
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CHTC Small Examples; Links for Small Examples |
| Tuesday, Nov 3 |
Distributed computing on CHTC, cont'd |
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HW5 (Due Nov 13); CHTC callingR Demo; Links for callingR demo; Don't forget to vote if you are eligible to do so |
| Thursday, Nov 5 |
Distributed computing on CHTC, cont'd |
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| Tuesday, Nov 10 |
Group Projects |
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Group Project Overview and Deadlines |
| Thursday, Nov 12 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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Project proposals due Friday, November 13 |
| Tuesday, Nov 17 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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| Thursday, Nov 19 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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First round of project feedback due Friday, Nov 20 |
| Tuesday, Nov 24 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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| Thursday, Nov 26 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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First draft of project report due Monday, Nov 30 |
| Tuesday, Dec 1 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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| Thursday, Dec 3 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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Second round of project feedback due Firday, Dec 4 |
| Tuesday, Dec 8 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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| Thursday, Dec 10 |
Group Projects, cont'd |
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Final draft of project report due Friday, Dec 11 |