Welcome to the Bekerman-Friedman Institute! During this orientation we will brief you in about the tools we believe will help you the most in your RAship at BFI. We have prepared a set of 1 hour to 1.5 hours sessions about general programming topics and career and work environment talks. During this orientation you will interact with both PIs, other pre-doctoral fellows, and current PhD students that will talk about their careers and their overall experiences as BFI and EPIC pre-doctoral fellows.
In this repo, you will have all the orientation materials, and some information related to your first days at EPIC.
The orientation will span two weeks. Our main and TA sessions will take place virtually (Zoom links will be shared later). You can find this year’s agenda here.
Before starting this orientation you will need some software first. We will guide you through the installation process (in Unix-based machines, hopefully). Also, some of the sessions are assuming some basic knowledge of programming languages. In general, you are expected to understand object structures (i.e. lists, dictionaries, matrices, etc.) and some experience in any programming language.
This is a comprehensive list of what we need to install:
Git(Install command-line tools in your MacOS)- Python (3.6+):
-Python packages:
pandasmatplotlibipythonjupyter
- R
- RStudio
- SublimeText (or PyCharm using your educational email)
- [If you’re working on a server] Vim or if you feel with lack of faith, use Emacs.
Although you can install software using click-and-point, you can also install software in a more programmatic way.
- MacOS users - Instructions
- Linux users - You probably know how to do this already
- Windows - Change OS 🙊.
If you have any problem installing any of the software listed, you can always use UChicago’s Midway.