Editing Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2015)/Day 1 baby names project download

In this section, we'll download everything we need for tomorrow's projects.

==Baby Names==

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===Download the Baby Names project===

You'll be playing with data from the list of all baby names in the US (used more than five times in a year) from the last several years:

# Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2015/cdsw-autumn/babynames.zip
# The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your Desktop directory. Find babynames.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called babynames containing several files.


===Test the Baby Names code===

Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop\babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives. 

:On Windows
If the Baby Names project is at <code>C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames</code>,

 cd C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames

will change you into that directory, and

 ls

will show you the source code files in that directory.

;On Mac
Start a command prompt and navigate to the ~/Desktop/babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives. For example, if the Baby Names project is at <code>~/Desktop/babynames</code>,

 cd ~/Desktop/babynames

will change you into that directory, and

 ls

will show you the source code files in that directory.

One of the files is <code>babynames1.py</code>, which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:

 python babynames1.py

at the command prompt to execute the babynames1.py Python script. It should output text that says something like this:

 There were 12 boys named mako

If it does not, let a mentor know.

===Success!===

You've completed setup for the Baby Names project.

==State Capitals==

We'll look at an example Python script that quizzes you on state capitals during the lecture on Saturday.

# Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2015/cdsw-spring/state_capitals.py

==Success!==

You are done downloading the Saturday projects.

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