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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: | 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- | # 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/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. | # 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. | ||
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Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop\babynames directory where the Baby Names code lives. | 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>, | If the Baby Names project is at <code>C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames</code>, | ||
cd C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames | cd C:\Users\'''{Your User Name}'''\Desktop\babynames | ||
will change you into that directory | 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>, | 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 | cd ~/Desktop/babynames | ||
will change you into that | will change you into that directory, and | ||
ls | 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: | One of the files is <code>babynames1.py</code>, which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type: |