Hello and welcome to a video about getting started in Colab. First things first, the
website address for Colab is colab.research.google.com.
COLAB is a tool made by Google that helps us code in Python in our browsers.
All right so once you've reached the website and you're on the screen that looks something like this one the first thing we're going
to do is actually click outside this box because what we want to do is make sure that we're actually signed into our correct
Google account. Right now I'm in my personal Gmail account. That's not what we want. We want to make sure that we are in our
UALR email address. Okay, now I'm
in my correct email address. You should have something that looks a little bit like this. You won't have all these
extra files. You will have a welcome to colab file which you can click and it will give you some information about colab.
To get started on your assignments you're going to need to create a new file though. So we're going to go to file
new notebook in Drive. And this will create a new notebook for us
in the Google Drive that we have set up on our UALR email account. Okay,
so right away you see we've got some options here for code and text. We have
these same options down here plus code plus text. You can type in this code block. Now
I'm going to go ahead and make a variable called name and set it
to Lindsey. You'll learn more about creating variables in future videos in this series. Let's print
that out. I'm going to click this button off to the side here that looks like
a play button and it will run the code block that I just made. There
we go and we see the output is Lindsey. We told it my name is Lindsey to print the name and it went ahead and printed Lindsey
just like that, just that simple. Now if we wanted to add text for example if you
had an explanation that you wanted to give or if you wanted to make a note for yourself
or if you wanted to write something in APA style then this would be the way to do it.
We're just gonna say this is the text box. My name is Lindsey.
Okay now when I click out of
that it displays it just as text. If I need to edit this for some reason I can double click it
and I could make let's make Lindsey bold and
you can see how it sets it up that way but we have a preview over here for what it's going to look like
and there we go. Now Lindsey is bold. So let's say this is our assignment and we want to turn it in
now. What we'll do is go to file print Microsoft
print to pdf print again and we're
going to call it Carl LA assignment one which I already have one saved here so I'm just going to overwrite it.
This is according to the naming conventions that you have set up for your instructions in the assignment one. So just read those instructions
and follow the naming conventions there for tiling your assignments. It does count towards
your grade. Yes I do want to overwrite that in this case. Now you'll also want to save
your .ipynb file and it will be helpful to you if you give it the same naming
convention. We'll just say that this is assignment one and
I'm going to hit control s. Sorry, cancel. It will save on its own.
Once you have your file saved on your computer is a PDF file. You'll go to
the Wix website which is rbflynn4.wixite.com/statlab.
Under a assignment one, you'll go to submit assignment one.
Then you'll fill out this form, attach your file,
add your t number. This may be updated in the future to be your workday number. At
the moment, it is still a t number, but this may change later, just so you know. But once you've
filled out this form, you just click the submit button. And once you've hit submit, you'll get a confirmation email from Wix letting
you know that you've submitted your assignment. And that's it. That's all you need to get started on assignment
one. Please go ahead and watch the first video for assignment one, and it will help you to understand how
to create variables. All right, have fun learning Python and happy coding.