1) In the Spark lab, figure out why some of those Zeppelin and Jupyter scripts are failing (especially on Windows machines) and figure out a solution. Could be as simple as having them paste from the browser into Notepad and from Notepad into the notebooks; not sure. I’m glad to revise the labs to incorporate the solution. It is imperative that we test Exercises 2 and 3 in that lab on OS X and Windows and probably test in 2 or 3 different browsers on each platform. This lab suffers repeated failures every time we deliver it and we must fix this. As an aside, at Georgia Tech, UMass, and MIT, there were roughly as many Windows laptops in the room as Macbooks. I’ve only seen a handful of Linux laptops in the classes I’ve done. There was one, for example, at UMass, and none at MIT.
1) In the Spark lab, figure out why some of those Zeppelin and Jupyter scripts are failing (especially on Windows machines) and figure out a solution. Could be as simple as having them paste from the browser into Notepad and from Notepad into the notebooks; not sure. I’m glad to revise the labs to incorporate the solution. It is imperative that we test Exercises 2 and 3 in that lab on OS X and Windows and probably test in 2 or 3 different browsers on each platform. This lab suffers repeated failures every time we deliver it and we must fix this. As an aside, at Georgia Tech, UMass, and MIT, there were roughly as many Windows laptops in the room as Macbooks. I’ve only seen a handful of Linux laptops in the classes I’ve done. There was one, for example, at UMass, and none at MIT.