MPO 624 CLASS FOR SPRING 2018

Welcome!

The course is all here. Fork it so you can contribute back!

Software accounts and installs:

1. https://github.com/MPOcanes/MPO624-2018/blob/master/INSTALL_JUPYTER_UNIDATA.md
2. https://github.com/MPOcanes/MPO624-2018/blob/master/GITHUB_QUICKSTART.md
3. Install the IDV
   • Install the IDV nightly build from Undiata. https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/nightly/index.jsp You will need to create a light sign-in, just so they know who’s using it. Great free software, my group (and Xingchen in class) are involved with integrating it into Jupyter notebooks.
4. Matlab
   • Matlab is free to you while you are at UM. You will need to create an account with them, verify license tokens, etc. It is very powerful, and very well documented with lots of hand-holding features, but it is commercial and proprietary. I will not use my course to create a generation of addicts to it, but you might end up using it -- lots of scientists do, and a big body of working, legacy code is nothing to sneer at. You can install it from here: http ://it.miami.edu/a-z-listing/matlab/index.html

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Random links

Beginner's intro to github: https://github.com/Github-Classroom-Cybros/Learn-Git-Github

How to use repos in teaching https://classroom.github.com/videos

List of emojis you can use in Markdown: https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908

Special characters to cut and paste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references