Introductions and Getting Started ================================= Intro: - Someone remind us to take attendance please (we often forget...) - Where are the materials? Here! http://swc-columbia.com - Online chat? Here! http://www.hipchat.com/glEeNhpyS - Comments? Questions? Fixes? + You can add comments at the bottom of each page. + You can also *edit* each page on github, and suggest them as changes. - The schedule is adaptable! Day 2 will be adjusted to how Day 1 goes, plus some. - Everything we talk about will be available through this Web site, one way or another... - Ask questions! - Watch for the cliffs: everything is going along fine and whoops, that's a big step... Getting started: 1. Please partner with someone that you know and has similar challenges. 2. Please send `to the instructors (swc.nyc1@gmail.com) `__ a ~one paragraph description of a specific research problem that you are having. For example, "I am working on a marine organism and we got 5000 genes from sequencing and I need to figure out what their matches are in another organism and I want to automate the process." We would like to share these with others so that we know what kind of research your group is interested in. If you would like to keep your comments private, please include the word "private" in the subject line of your email. 3. At the end of each major section, we'll be doing what we call "minute-card" exercises which helps us understand how we're helping you and identify materials which we could improve our teaching or contnet. We'll be asking you to write down one thing you learned and one thing you're confused about at the end of each section.