✍️ Formative W02-W03

DS105 - Data for Data Science

Formative assignment

This problem set is not graded but you will get written feedback if you submit.

Check out the 🔖 Week 02 Appendix - 📃 Text editors section for more info on vim.

Follow the steps below and, when asked, copy your responses to the Moodle page of this assignment.

P1: Identify yourself

1. On the terminal, type the two commands below:

    whoami

    uname -a

2. Take a screenshot (how?) of your terminal and submit to Moodle, under the field identified as P1.

P2: Edit a file

1. Go to the DS105 folder you created earlier during W02 lab:

    cd ~/DS105

2. Rename the README.txt to README.md (a markdown file):

    mv README.txt README.md

3. Edit the README.md file following the template below, replacing all occurrences of <> with your responses:

   # DS105
   
   Name: <>
   Date: <>
   Candidate Number: <>
   Degree Program: <>
   
   ## Notes
   
   - I want to learn data science because <>

4. Save and quit vim.

5. Print some metadata about your file to prove you were the one editing it:

    stat README.md

6. Print the contents of your file to the terminal:

    cat README.md

7. Take a screenshot (how?) of your terminal and submit to Moodle, under the field identified as P2. Make sure that both the output of stat and cat commands are visible.