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== Session 0: Python Setup ==
The goal of this session was to get users setup with Python and starting to learn some
* Anaconda is not free software
* Anaconda does not support Python 3 which we'd like to move to.
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Additionally, we moved the Windows curriculum from away from <code>cmd</code> to using Powershell. This was
Changes for next time include:
* Because it was less
* Because Powershell was successful, we're going to try to create a single consolidated set of installation instructions for Windows, Mac OSX, and GNU/Linux
* We will make it more clear to mentors whether participants should self-report they’d completed the steps or whether the mentor should verify that the steps were all taken (the latter). In future, we will email mentors ahead of time to let them know.
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* We need to do a better job of modelling
* The sticky notes we bought were small and ambiguous color. We should get
* We are going to try writing additional installation instructions that do not rely on Anaconda so people have a fully open source option.
* Once again, not a single person outside of
* We
▲* Not everybody loves the checkout step. Maybe there's a way we can make it more fun?
We also had [[Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2014)/Reflections#Mentorship|a bunch of general feedback on how we could improvement mentorship]] that is
== Session 1: Introduction to Python ==
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