Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Published

September 8, 2025

Key Concepts Learned

  • How to use GitHub
  • How to use GitHub desktop

Coding Techniques

  • ‘Render’ button to get preview of website
  • Using the terminal to type ‘quarto render’

Questions & Challenges

  • I have never used GitHub before this class, so the main challenge has been trying to understand how it works and what is happening when I use it.
  • Learning the different terms like repositories (folder containing my project files), commit (snapshot of my work at a point in time), push (Send changes made on R Studio to GitHub cloud), pull (Pull latest changes from Github cloud)

Connections to Policy

  • [How this week’s content applies to real policy work]

Reflection

  • [What was most interesting]
  • [How I’ll apply this knowledge]