Welcome to DSC 190: Tools of the Trade. This course will introduce you to the most important tools for getting stuff done in data science. We'll cover the command line, version control, managing your development environment, deploying data science models to production, and more. All of this will be done using the meta-tool of the future: agentic AI.
This repository is also the website. It contains all of the course materials. The important files and directories are:
SYLLABUS.md: the course syllabus, including the schedule and gradinglectures/: slides and materials used for each lecture.- Each lecture is a markdown file (
slides.md) that is meant to be displayed using presenterm. - PDF versions of the slides are linked from
lectures/README.md.
- Each lecture is a markdown file (
assignments/: starter code and instructions for each assignmentresources/: supplementary notes and guides on various topics.
We will also use Gradescope for grades and Campuswire as a messageboard. You should have received invitations to both.
If you'd like to view this repository on the web, you can find it at:
This repo is designed to be used by agentic AIs, like Claude Code. There is a full
collection of skills that AIs can use in the .agents/skills/ directory.
| Name | Day/Time |
|---|---|
| Justin | Fridays, 1:00–2:00pm in HDSI 346 |
| Saara (TA) | Fridays, 12:30-1:30pm in HDSI 240 |
| John (TA) | Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30pm on Zoom |