Course Introduction

Lecture 01 — Data Engineering — Spring 2015

January 13, 2015

About Me

Kenneth M. Anderson — Associate Professor

• Ph.D. at UC Irvine in 1998
• 16.5 Years at CU; Start of my 34th Semester!
• This is my first time teaching this class.
• Research Interests
  • Software & Web Engineering
  • Software Architecture
  • Crisis Informatics

GitHub

For this course, you will need a GitHub account.

Homework 0

I want you to create a new repository.

Naming the Repo

Call it s15_<LASTNAME>_data_lecture_notes

Tell it to initialize this repository with a README

View README.md

Click on the link for the README.md file

Edit README.md

Click on the edit icon.

Take Notes!

I want you to take notes each lecture

The document is written using Markdown.

Commit Your Changes

Every now and then: save your changes!

You save changes by commiting to the underlying repo.

Fill out the form and click Commit changes.

Rinse and Repeat

The README.md file will now display your changes.

Click edit again and go back to writing notes!

Markdown?

I need a volunteer to create a presentation about Markdown.

I'd like you to cover basic Markdown …

… and GitHub's extensions to Markdown

Any takers?