19. Initial setup and data import

2D Catenary & Cable Structures
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Questions and discussion for this lecture live here. Fire away by hitting Reply below :fire:

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Will the CSV files be shared in the next lecture (20)?

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Hi @mike.ecinwa - fair question! All of the assets for this section (including CSV files) can actually be downloaded from the last lecture in the section (lecture 31).

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Thank you, found the data (and the notebook)
Trying to avoid the notebook and following along typing the code as I watch.

First “stupid” question
how does one insert the “green” and “red” dots in the messages in cell 4?

Second “stupid” question
what was the name of the addin you were using to “hide” cells?

Thanks in advance.

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Hey @mike.ecinwa

There are no stupid questions!

To get the green and red dots, I simply paste in the relevant emoji - you can copy them from numerous different sites or if you’re on a Mac, you can pull up a native emoji selector and copy them from there.

Regarding the extension for hiding cells - I believe I used ‘nbextensions’. BUT - this is not my current recommendation. I would encourage you to move away from Jupyter Notebooks as I use them in this course and switch to writing your Jupyter Notebooks in a more fully-featured development environment.

One option is to use JupyterLab. I talk about that and explain how to set it up in this video:

It’s marked as a preview video so you don’t need to have that access to that course to watch it.

However, since then, I’ve migrated most of my Jupyter Notebook development into VSCode. Again this is very simple to set-up for Jupyter Notebooks. I don’t have a dedicated video on this but you shouldn’t have any trouble getting it up and running. At the very least, watch my JupyterLab migration video (abobe) and play around in that environment - it’s far superior to just using vanilla Jupyter Notebooks (as I was using them in this course).

Should if you have any specific questions on migrating your workflow.

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