MarkusKonk / CompEnv-Ex2

Exercise using Binder to explore different computational environments

Computational Environment Example 2

Orienting you to the GitHub repository

There are lots of links here, they're here to help understand the different branches in GitHub.

If you already know this, then feel free to jump to the instructions below.

There are three branches in this repository.

• master : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/tree/master
• branch-a : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/tree/branch-1
• branch-b : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/tree/branch-b

There's an identical jupyter notebook in all three branches.

• chap03.ipynb in master : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/blob/master/demo.ipynb
• chap03.ipynb in branch-a : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/blob/branch-a/demo.ipynb
• chap03.ipynb in branch-b : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/blob/branch-b/demo.ipynb

Two of the branches have environment files:

• master does not have an environment file.
• branch-a has an environment file : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/blob/branch-a/environment.yml
• branch-b has an environment file : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/blob/branch-b/environment.yml

Instructions

1. Click the links below to open the Binders for branch-a and branch-b. These will take you directly to the jupyter notebook. We recommend you right click and select "Open Link in a New Tab" in order to keep these instructions visible.

• 👉 Binder for branch-a: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/branch-a?filepath=demo.ipynb
• 👉 Binder for branch-b: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/alan-turing-institute/CompEnv-Ex2/branch-b?filepath=demo.ipynb

2. Run the code!

Questions

• What's different between these two branches?
• What is the difference in the output?
• How do these differences arise?