gitgoing

Get going with contributing to open-source software Riva's version

• Free software: BSD license
• Documentation: https://gitgoing.readthedocs.org.

Prerequisistes: Installing Git and Python

1. Make a github account
2. Create a folder for all your code.

• Mac:

2. Install git on your computer

• Mac - Comes with git but you can update it if you want via homebrew.
  1. Create a folder ~/code by typing into the terminal mkdir ~/code
  • (feel free to use your own code folder if you already have one that you like)
  2. OPTIONAL: Use homebrew http://brew.sh (it's a great package manager for installing command line apps!)
  • Install by pasting this into your terminal: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • If you don't have git installed, type brew install git to install it!
• Windows
  1. Install gitextensions here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/
  2. Create a folder C:\code by typing into powershell mkdir C:\code
  • (feel free to use your own code folder if you already have one that you like)

3. Install Anaconda Python distribution found here: http://continuum.io/downloads

• Make sure to use the Python 2.7 version. You can verify that your computer has Python 2.7 by typing python --version into your terminal.

Tutorial

To get started with the tutorial, click here.

Data Cleaning tutorial

• Jupyter notebook (gist)