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Saving course material

This table lists the expected expiration date for course content. Note that while we believe this to be accurate, there may be platform changes or other issues that result in the content being unavailable for a shorter period. Therefore we recommend that you develop a plan for saving content and work on that as you go.

Success

Investing the ~10 minutes every week or two to save your work is easier than doing it all at the end of the semester.

Content Expiration Date Access Method
Vocareum work 5 days after course end labs.vocareum.com
Canvas/edX videos and content No expiration planned No change
Bootcamp Colab notebooks No expiration planned No change
Bootcamp videos No expiration planned, but assume no access ~6 after the semester ends No change
Piazza No expiration planned, but assume no access ~6 months after semester ends No change

Recommendations for saving work:

  • Consider a good storage system for your notes that will be easily searchable, and will allow you to access them easily in the future. Balance reliability, accessibility, and cost. You can use common cloud services for storing them along with your other files, or you may consider a notes-focused tool such as OneNote.
  • Use Github for code. While you are not allowed to have a public repo with course solutions, you can have a private repo. This will allow you to store them indefinitely, for free, and is likely something that will be part of your life going forward.
  • All content without expiration dates should be around for a while, but we have limited control over that after the course ends. For recordings hosted on GT-Mediaspace, those can disappear at any time. Our Colab notebooks will be updated overtime and sometimes that may mean they get overwritten. Canvas/edX will allow access after the course ends, but at their discretion they may close it off, or videos may otherwise stop being accessible.

Note

There is a lot of course content. Don't save every single thing unless you think you'll need it in the future. Saving all content will take a good amount of time, which may be better spent focusing on a curated selection, or creating some "final course notes" that you know will be useful to you later.

Saving your Vocareum work:

Simple method: save your notebook only

  • Go into your notebook, File > Download As > [html - easy, .ipynb - to open locally]

Alternative: full environment download to run locally

Replace problem2 with whatever name you want to you. Alternatively, leave the name as is and just rename once they're downloaded.

  • Repeat for each part of each notebooks => Run ~30-40 times to save all notebooks

    1. Add 2 cells to the jupyter notebook (actual notebook, or you can create a new Jupyter notebook)
    2. Run !touch problem2.tar.gz
    3. Run !tar -czhf problem2.tar.gz --exclude=problem2.tar.gz --exclude=.voc *
    4. Download the resulting compressed file *.tar.gz Jupyter > download file interface

Saving Colab notebooks:

  • Save to Drive File > save a copy in Drive
  • Alternativaly, save to Github or use the general Save button. Download will also work to download as a .ipynb file, although since Drive is "free", it's easy to keep it tehre.