Welcome to the U. California Santa Cruz course, BIOE 176/276 Data Science for Ecology & Evolutionary Biology!
This organization has repositories used as templates during the course.
Please see the Canvas site for course logistics.
Malin Pinsky
mpinsky@ucsc.edu
Global Change Research Group
If you’re struggling with the code in this class, there’s a decent chance you found a bug or instructions that need clarification. Thank you in advance for pointing it out! To let me know, please:
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Navigate to the file where you found the error.
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If you can, find the line where the error originated. Use your browser’s find function to jump straight to the relevant line. You don’t have to be 100% correct! Even if you’re not sure you’ve identified the right line of code, finding something in the general area is helpful.
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Click on the line number, then the three dots next to it (…), then chose "Reference in new issue."
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You should see the new issue page. Give it a concise title (e.g., “Wrong data frame name in Visualization 1 assignment”) and briefly describe the error.
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Click on Submit new issue (green button).
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That’s it! I’ll receive a notification that you’ve found an issue. When I fix it, the code change will be linked to your issue.
Opening an issue might seem like a lot of work, but there are good reasons for it. By going through the process, you will
- Get more comfortable navigating GitHub repos
- Learn how to use Issues, a great project management tool
- When other students run into the same problem, they too can see that it is an error, which is helpful for everyone’s sanity.
Thanks to (Max Czapanskiy for this approach)[https://flukeandfeather.github.io/BIOE215fall23/reporting_errors.html]