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Computing Resources

• Operating system: Preferably Linux or MacOS. If you have Windows, things may crash unexpectedly (try installing a virtual machine if you need to)
• RAM: Minimum 8GB
• Disk space: Mininium 8GB

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Software Requirements

Here is a list of the required programs and libraries necessary for this lab session. (Please install them before coming to our lab session on Tuesday; this will save us a lot of time, plus these are the same libraries you may need for your first assignment).

• Python 3+ (Note: lab and assignment will be done strictly using Python 3)
• Install latest version of Python 3

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Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j