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📅 Due: This assignment must be completed before 1:00 PM on your first lab meeting day (see syllabus schedule).
🕒 Time: Plan at least two hours to complete this assignment. If you run into technical challenges, this will take additional time.
🎯 Purpose: Learn to use Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and Google CoLab so that you arrive to our first meeting prepared to complete your first in-class activity.
This assumes you have completed the Orientation Module and have enrolled in our Google Classroom.
To prepare for the first laboratory meeting, please do the following prior to the laboratory period:
- Read this entire module - follow the instructions within the module to complete the tasks listed below.
- Complete and submit the Google CoLab assignment: A. Introduction to Python and Jupyter Notebooks (in Google CoLab).
- Create an account on ChemCompute
- Bring your working computer to the meeting.
- This session is a "Dry Lab": We will meet in a classroom, thus lab attire is not necessary for this session.
Be sure you complete the assignment above and submit it on Google Classroom before the deadline!
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