4. Homework

Perform all the verification steps to ensure that you are up to speed with the webinar series and can in a smooth way follow the coming sessions.

1. Terminal Basics

• Read Working on the Terminal
• Complete the Terminal exercise
• Verification: You can run ls in a terminal on your laptop and see the contents of a directory

2. Git and GitHub

• Read Git and GitHub
• Complete the exercises (both GitHub and Git sections)
• Verification: You have forked and cloned an existing public repository of choice (e.g. minimalist-example)

3. Installation and Virtual Environments

• Read Installation and Virtual Environments
• Verification: You have been able to install a package/library in your language of choice (Python/R).
• Strongly Recommended: you have succeeded in making a virtual environment for installing packages using either "venv" or "uv" (Python), or "Renv" (R)

Questions and Getting Help

If you have questions or run into issues, post on the DHIS2 Community of Practice (CoP). Helping each other is part of the learning process!