Introduction & Set Up

Last updated Jan 19, 2025

🔑 Key for Reading my notes

✍️ Summary section

⛔ Where I recommend not pausing your workflow

⬛ Using our terminal window

📝 Using our code editor

⚒️ A difference between the course and what I had to do to 'fix' it

✅ What we learned

♻️ Where we will recall something from a pervious lesson

📚 Supplemental Materials

🔖 A link I recommend bookmarking

🔗 Additional Helpful links

☑️ Getting Started

• Zoomcamp Pre Course Q&A Youtube

• Zoomcamp Jan 13 Launch w/ Q&A Youtube

• Github Coursework

To obtain the certificate, you only need to pass the project at the end of the course. To get the most out of the course, completing the homework, #learninginpublic, and helping answer other student's questions is encouraged.

🔽 Download & Set-Up

• Python

• Visual Studio Code or Pycharm or Notepadd ++ etc.

• Docker Desktop

• Terraform

• Git account

I believe the alternative option is using a virtual environment in Google Cloud and Github Codespace. You can see the videos on the set-up here in videos: 1.4.1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae-CV2KfoN0&list=PL3MmuxUbc_hJed7dXYoJw8DoCuVHhGEQb&index=15 1.4.2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOSUt8Ih3zA&list=PL3MmuxUbc_hJed7dXYoJw8DoCuVHhGEQb&index=16

I have not attempted this alternative yet, but will update this section if I do.

🔖 Bookmark these!

If you use google chrome, I recommend creating a group tab. You can learn how here.

• Youtube Playlist Data Engineering

• Youtube Playlist Data Engineering 2025

• Youtube Playlist Data Engineering 2024 (for office hour videos)

• Google Calendar Data Engineering Events

• Slack Data Engineering Course - Recommend to download app

• Telegram Announcements - Optional

• Github Coursework

• Google Doc FAQ

• Homework Submission & Leaderboard

• GCP Google Cloud Platform

• Data Source Taxi Rides NY

❓Asking for Help in Slack

1. Join the slack data engineering course channel link posted above

2. Follow these recommendations when asking for help

3. Read the DataTalks.Club community guidelines

🔗 Helpful Links

• Intro to Python

• Data Talks Club

• Past Student Notes for Module 1

• Ella's 2024 Intro & Module 1 Video

• I may update these as I go through the course.