EGR 224/Spring 2023/Lab 00

At The Beginning of Lab

• Go to https://www.google.com and sign in; if you do not have a Google account, create one
• In another tab in the same browser, go to https://drive.google.com
• In another tab in the same browser, go to https://colab.research.google.com
  • In the Colab tab, click File and select "New notebook" - among other things, if you haven't gone here before, this will create a "Colab Notebooks" folder in your Google Drive
• In another tab in the same browser, go to Homework 0
• In another tab in the same browser, go to https://sakai.duke.edu/
• Get the sym_helpers.py file and put it in your Google Drive/Colab Notebooks/Helpers folder:
  • In the Sakai tab:
    • Go to the page for EGR 224
    • Click on the "Resources" link at left
    • Click on the "HW 0 Files" folder in Resources
    • Click on the "Helpers" folder in the "HW 0 Files" folder
    • Right-click the "sym_helper.py" file and save it to your computer
  • In the Google Drive tab, double-click on the "Colab Notebooks" folder to open it
    • Right-click in the blank space and create a new folder called "Helpers"
    • Double-click the "Helpers" folder
    • Go find where your downloaded "sym_helpers.py" and drag it into the "Helpers" folder
• Get the HW00soln zip, unzip it, and put that folder Google Drive/Colab Notebooks folder:
  • In the Sakai tab:
    • Go to the page for EGR 224
    • Click on the "Resources" link at left
    • Click on the "HW 0 Files" folder in Resources
    • Right-click the "HW00soln.zip" file and save it to your computer
  • On your computer:
    • Find and open the HW00soln.zip file
      • On Windows, click the "Extract all" icon at the top of the page when you open the file -- keep track of where it extracts the file to
      • On macOS,
  • In the Google Drive tab, double-click on the "Colab Notebooks" folder to open it
    • Right-click in the blank space and select "Folder Upload"
    • Go find where your extracted the "HW00soln" folder and drag it into the "Colab Notebooks" folder
      • Note - the HW00soln folder you need is inside the HW00soln folder you extracted. So find "HW00soln" and then click through that to find the "HW00soln" you actually want...
• Open and run the "findfits.ipynb":
  • In the Google Drive tab, double-click on "Colab Notebooks" then "HW00soln" then "findfits.ipynb" -- Google Colab should automatically open a new tab with the "findfits.ipynb" notebook.
  • In the "findfits.ipynb" tab, click "Runtime" and select "Run all". As the notebook is running, it should ask if you will permit your notebook to access your Google Drive files. You should allow it to...
• Access Dr. G's linear algebra examples
  • Open a new browser tab and point it at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10NuAAl4yWpsapZesm2snnWOgMtBb-tP2?usp=sharing
  • Double-click on linalg_1_basic.ipynb