Wakari.io

[tommeagher]

On Monday, I'm going to send a note to everyone registered for both sections of the class, asking them to sign up for a free account at Wakari.io. Ideally, everyone will be signed up ahead of time.

I called Wakari yesterday. While they can't guarantee service for the free tier of accounts, it shouldn't be a problem for us all to access it simultaneously. If anyone has a problem, they can use their local iPython, if they need to.

In Wakari, I can easily pull down the Github repo (maybe we should make a "comments" branch that just includes the empty files we'll use during the class) and share the files and environment as a bundle with everyone. Through the Wakari dashboard, everyone will get a text editor and a terminal to run files. If we need it, it also includes iPython interpreter and notebooks. It already has requests installed. We may need to pip install bs4 or other 3rd party modules.

This should be a very easy platform for teaching. If you have a moment this weekend, please sign up for your own free account at Wakari.io. Go and kick the tires a bit. And help us spread the word on Monday to get the students to create their accounts before they get to Baltimore.

[tommeagher]

Sent out the email this morning, which you all should have gotten too. Holler if you have any problems with signing up or using Wakari. We can do a run through Wednesday evening too.