Creating an example script.

Overview

Teaching: min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• How do I know my code runs?

Objectives

• Set up the example script

Setting up an example

1. Create a new repository on github
2. Clone it to your computer
3. Inside create a demean_age.py file

import numpy as np

age = np.loadtxt("participants.tsv", skiprows=1, usecols=3)

mean_age = sum(age)/len(age)

np.savetxt("demeaned_age.txt", age-mean_age)

print("done!")

1. Download this data file and put it next to the .py file

Tasks:

• “Can you check if the script runs without errors?”

Key Points

• Running things manually does not scale.