Homework 1 Clarifications

Relevant Links

• Main Course Page:
  • Homework 1 Assignment Page
  • Project Topic Spreadsheet (Claim your project topic here! See Step 4 on the assignment page)
• Other Writeups:
  • Using Quarto’s Reference/Citation Manager

⚠️ Due Date Clarification: Pushed to Sep 21

• Important clarification for Jeff’s DSAN 5000 sections (02 and 03): Because of my delay in teaching you all the lab material, I am pushing the due date for Homework 1, for both Section 02 and Section 03, forward to Thursday, September 21st at 11:59pm EDT.

(HW1 Step 2) Cloning the GitHub repo

• The GitHub repository that is automatically created when you accept the GitHub Classroom assignment defaults to private. This may be an issue if you have not yet set up a Personal Access Token on your GitHub account, or if you have run into issues when trying to set up the Personal Access Token. See this page for GitHub’s documentation on how to set up and manage these tokens.
  • Once you have created a token, run the following command:

  git clone https://github.com/anly501/dsan-5000-project-[your username].git

  • This command tells git that you’d like it to clone (i.e., copy) the automatically-created dsan-5000-project-[your username] repository to your local computer.
  • But, it may ask you for a password before it allows this downloading. If so, do not enter your “main” GitHub password: GitHub is phasing out the ability to use this password to clone repositories. Instead, just copy-and-paste the Personal Access Token you created into the terminal (as in, paste this Token instead of typing out your GitHub account password).
  • It should now download the remote (automatically-created) repository to your local drive. (If it doesn’t, or if you’re still experiencing issues, feel free to email me or sign up for an office hours slot!)