Orientation

Slides¶

Lecture Video¶

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Content¶

This week, we will discuss the course arrangement and briefly introduce the concept of materials informatics and open-source software. In the practicals, we will set up the programming environment together and learn how to write a simple Python program using VS Code.

Learning Objectives¶

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

• Understand the course arrangement and the concept of materials informatics.
• Understand what is open-source software, and hosting platforms like GitHub and GitLab.
• Understand the general workflow of GitHub: commit, push, pull, and merge.
• Understand the branch, fork, and pull request in GitHub.
• Setup the programming environment.
• Write a simple Python programme using VS Code directly.
• Create a Jupyter notebook and run it in VS Code.