Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Published

September 8, 2025

Key Concepts Learned

  • GitHub Git is a collaboration tool for teams. It tracks changes for our code projects. GitHub is a cloud hosting for Git repositories. It backs up work in the cloud. Through GitHub, we can share project with other people and collaborate on code projects.
  • Terminology Repository is the folder that contains the project files Commit is snapshot of our work at a point in time Push Send changes to GitHub cloud Pull Get latest changes from GitHub cloud
  • Quarto is a publishing system that combines code, text, and output into professional documents.

Coding Techniques

  • [New R functions or approaches]
  • [Quarto features learned]

Questions & Challenges

  • [What I didn’t fully understand]
  • [Areas needing more practice]

Connections to Policy

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

Reflection

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