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Welcome to DESI High! You’ve found introductory notebooks to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for high schoolers, kindly hosted by Binder. Here you can join us and run your own experiments with hot-off-the-telescope DESI data. For a great introduction to the DESI project, start with this video, the DESI website, and our Twitter feed!
If you’re new to the python programming language, don’t worry! You’ll pick it up quickly. You can try this book to get started and be sure to keep our cheatsheets directory close by to provide some handy summaries of the basics.
DESI High uses Jupyter notebooks, which makes all things easy when it comes to python and data science. You can read all about them here.
If you get stuck with a python question, be like the pros and try www.google.com! If you have a science question, leave us a message and we’ll be happy to help answer them. But remember, all staff and students at DESI High abide by the Code of Conduct.
We’re almost ready to go. You’ll first see a loading page, after which you’ll want Intro.ipynb and then DESI.ipynb. By that stage you’ll be a pro and can try the rest—SnowWhiteDwarf is one of our favorites.
Like what you see? Find out about watching repositories and you’ll get an update when we add new experiments. If you’ve created your own, we’d love to see them! Try “your first commit”.
For budding developers, we support Docker, Travis CI and Anaconda Cloud.
Have a classroom full of students potentially interested in DESI High? We have an elite team of scientists from across the globe ready to get things started for you! Meet one of our existing partner schools.
Know someone who would love this but doesn’t have access? Ask about our paper Binder and loaner laptop (for the Bay Area) programs.
