Editing DS4UX (Spring 2016)/Schedule (section)

=== Week 1: March 28 ===
[[DS4UX (Spring 2016)/Day 1 plan|Day 1 plan]]

;Assignments due
* fill out the pre-course survey

;Agenda
* Quick introductions — Be ready to introduce yourself and describe your interest and goals in the class.
* [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_1_lecture#Part 1: Why Programming and Data Science|Why Programming and Data Science for UX Research?]] — What this course is about
* Class overview and expectations — We'll walk through this syllabus.
* Group formation — We'll assemble in our peer programming groups for the first time.
* [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_1_exercise|Installation and setup]] — You'll install software including the Python programming language and run through a series of exercises.
* [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_1_lecture#Part 2: Basic Python concepts|Interactive lecture]]: ''programming concepts 1''
* [[DS4UX (Spring 2016)/Day 1 tutorial|Self-guided tutorial and exercises]] — You'll work through a self-guided tutorial to practice the basic concepts we introduced in the lecture.

;Homework
* Complete [[DS4UX (Spring 2016)/Day 1 tutorial|Self-guided tutorial and exercises]] (if you didn't finish this in class).
* Complete [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_1_exercise#Goal_7:_Practice_Python_using_Codecademy|CodeAcademy lessons]]

;Resources
* Python for Informatics: [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book001.html Preface] and [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book002.html Chapter 1  Why should you learn to write programs?]
* [http://sites.tufts.edu/cbi/files/2013/01/linux_cheat_sheet.pdf Command line cheat sheet] — covers basics like <code>ls, pwd, cd</code> and much more.
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