Getting Started
Contributors: Conner Swenberg, Alanna Zhou
Last updated
Contributors: Conner Swenberg, Alanna Zhou
Last updated
Like all other courses, you must enroll yourself on Student Center before the add deadline. For your convenience, our course code is 11847. This is not the permission number--this is just the code you use to find our course on Student Center.
We use Ed to manage classroom communications and answering student questions. The course Ed discussion is linked on the left sidebar underneath Getting Started.
Join the Ed here: https://edstem.org/us/join/M7Tzj5
Even if you do not anticipate asking questions, Ed will be the main method of communication between students and course staff, so take advantage of it!
Completing assignments will rely heavily on three tools: Python, a text editor, Postman, and the command line.
Before you do anything, make sure that you have Python 3.9.12 installed. The reason is that our course runs testing scripts that use 3.9+ features.
Check your Python versions to make sure you'll be using the right one. Notice that if you have both Python2 and Python3, you may have to use python3 when you're running it as a command so that your computer knows only to use version 3.
Our first lecture will introduce you to how computers communicate over the web and our demo will introduce you to the Flask python package which we will use throughout the course. We recommend watching a previous semester's lecture recording or reading the textbook chapter before coming to lecture.
