[onboarding] tasks to get set up with class infrastructure and tools

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• [x] Sign into ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/chat
• [x] Ask ChatGPT for help completing this checklist and copy and paste it, or to walk you through it
• [x] Install a package manager (Chocolatey for Windows or Homebrew for Mac), and use either to install Anaconda
• [x] Install Visual Studio Code using the package manager
• [x] Activate GitHub Student Developer Pack: https://education.github.com/pack
• [x] Install the Copilot extension for Visual Studio Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot
• [x] Sign into Visual Studio Code to activate the GitHub Student Developer Pack
• [x] Sign up for datathinking.zulipchat.com if you want to contribute to the data we will analyze together with your messages from our group chat
  • [x] Post a message in the General (https://datathinking.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/345278-general/topic/intros) stream topic called "intros" saying what you hope to get out of the course, and what experience you have with data thinking, AI & machine learning, statistics, mathematics, and computer science and programming. If you are new to all of this, that's great too! We just want to get a sense of where everyone is starting from :)
  • [x] Comment on this issue or ask on the Zulip chat if you run into any trouble, have any doubts or questions. Please include which task you were trying to complete, what you tried, and don't worry about asking ChatGPT too many questions or for help as much as possible!

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[siimre]

The most time-consuming task was "Activate GitHub Student Developer Pack: https://education.github.com/pack" because:

• My university email address was the last name only. It didn't match GitHub's validation bot. I didn't know that. There was no warning or notification about this either. It was just in "Unconfirmed" status. It lasted for days. I applied for a long-name email for myself. I registered it to GitHub and passed validation. I solved it by trial-error behaviour. There were no instructions on this.
• My student card, or ISIC card, is a bank card. I blurred the account number. After that, the robot announced that the image had been processed and was not accepted. Next, I taped the account number with electrical tape - such a picture was also unsuitable evidence. Ultimately, I could confirm through the webcam that I am a person and a student from Estonia.