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title: Assignment 1
tags: ['38610', mcu, mdas, mcs, fall 2022]

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# Assignment 1
August 30, 2022

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Remember that assignments are *not graded*. Please follow the instructions below.

###### tags: `fall 2022` `38610` `mdas` `mcs` `mcu`

## Exercise 1 - GitHub Account

:::warning
:warning: Indenpendently of this exercise, you will need a GitHub account for submitting homeworks. Might as well create one now, unless you already have one.
:::

If you have a GitHub account, then feel free to skip this exercise.

If you do not have a [GitHub](https://github.com/) account, then visit the site and [create an account](https://github.com/join).

Register with your Andrew ID. If you do, make sure to [add an alternative (personal) email](https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/adding-an-email-address-to-your-github-account) as well.

On Canvas, you will find a discussion board named `Submit and share your GitHub username`. Submit your username in that discussion board.

## Exercise 2 - GitHub repository

Go to [GitHub](https://github.com/) and create a new public repository

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/S681ws3.png" width="35%" /><br>

and name it `38610`

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/IuoQG4y.png" width="100%" /><br>

and make sure to initialize it with an empty `README.md`

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/QRdubSB.png" width="75%" /><br>

We will be using these repo to save our daily progress :page_facing_up:.

## Exercise 3 - Google Drive directory

:::warning
:warning: You will need these folders to start working on the next assignments in class.
:::

Go to [Google Drive](https://www.google.com/drive/) and login with your Andrew credentials.

Create a new folder 

![](https://i.imgur.com/nw0TnMl.png)

and name it `38610`

![](https://i.imgur.com/zuIkfUe.png).

After you create this folder, create a subfolder inside this folder and name it `datasets`.

We will be using these folder to upload public datasets.

## Exercise 3 - World Cheese Awards

Go to [Kaggle.com](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ericsims/world-cheese-awards-worlds-cheesiest-dataset) and download the file `world_cheese_awards_2021.csv` from the World Cheese Awards datasets.

Upload the file `world_cheese_awards_2021.csv` to the folder `38610/datasets` in Google Drive.

## Exercise 4 - Netflix 2022

Go to [Kaggle.com](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/syedmubarak/netflix-dataset-latest-2021) and download the file `Netflix Dataset Latest 2021.xlsx` from the World Cheese Awards datasets.

Upload the file `Netflix Dataset Latest 2021.xlsx` to the folder `38610/datasets` in Google Drive.

## Exercise 5 - Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub

Read the article

[![](https://i.imgur.com/K6KMVSc.png)](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004947)

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