---
title: "Homework −1: Setting Up"
tlda-classroom-server: "https://pic.cormorant-matrix.ts.net"
tlda-classroom-assignment: "hw-minus-1-setup"
tlda-answer-baseline: "hw-minus-1-setup.qmd.support/baseline.txt"
filters:
  - "hw-minus-1-setup.qmd.support/answer-placement-warning.lua"
---

# What this assignment is

Your setup. There is one exercise and it has nothing to do with statistics: install the
software, get a photo of something in your room into the answer block below, and hand it
in. The point is to find out now, while nothing is riding on it, that the whole path
works---because every assignment after this one runs on the same path, and some of them
will ask you to photograph work you did on paper.

## Set up once

1. [Download and install Positron](https://positron.posit.co/download).

2. In Positron, open **Extensions** in the sidebar, search for **tlda Classroom**,
   and choose **Install**. If you already installed it, choose **Update** instead.

3. Open [the class app](https://qtm285-1.github.io/app) and register. Choose
   **Connect Positron**, allow the page to open Positron, then choose **Continue to class**.
   You only do this once.

## Optional: turn on visual mode

Click the **...** at the right of the editor toolbar and choose **Edit in Visual Mode**.
⇧⌘F4 does the same thing, and switches you back.

Visual mode shows the document roughly as it will come out, so you can see the answer
blocks you are writing in. The next step works with or without visual mode.

## Putting a photo in an answer block

Copy the photo, then right-click---Command-click if you have a Mac---where you want it inside the
answer block, and choose **Paste**.

Positron copies the photo into the same folder as this document, and that copy is what
makes it travel with your work when you hand it in. If you would rather do it by hand,
put the file in that folder yourself and write `![](my-photo.png)` with your photo's filename.

# Exercise

::: {#exr-photo .callout-exercise}
Take a photo of something in the room you are in, and include it here.

Anything will do --- a plant, a mug, the wall. What matters is that the photo ends up
inside your submitted file, because that is the part that breaks if something is set up
wrong.
:::


::: {#ans-exr-photo .callout-answer}

*(your answer here)*

:::


# Handing it in

1. **Preview it.** Click **Preview** and make sure your homework looks like you intended it to.
2. **Submit.** Open **View > Command Palette** (or press **Shift-Command-P** on a Mac),
   type **Homework: Submit**, and choose it.

If it reports a problem you don't know how to fix, talk to me after class or email me at davidahirshberg@emory.edu.
