Using Github to track the class repository

Some basic instructions

Open a terminal window and use cd to navigate to the directory you will use for this class.

Clone (or make a local copy) using git clone

git clone https://github.com/rdhyee/working-open-data-2014.git

Navigate to the notebook folder with cd working-open-data-2014 and then cd notebooks

If you've installed IPython you can now run ipython notebook and IPython with open in a browser window with the notebooks from this class. When you start working on a notebook for class, make a copy of the notebook and rename as you like.

In the future when the class repository is updated on Github, run git pull origin master to pull the changes into to your local repository. This will create the new notebooks have that been added to Github on your own computer.