WEEK 00 · COCKPIT AND POSITIONING

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

Before a long expedition, good expedition leaders spend a whole day on something that looks boring: packing. Every item has a pocket, every pocket has a label, and the map is on top. They do this because on day 20, exhausted and cold, they will not have the willpower to search for the compass. Week 0 is packing day. You are not learning biology yet and you are not writing a simulator yet. You are building the cockpi…

If you only do one thing this week: the cockpit repo with TODAY.md filled for Monday

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THE NEXT BLOCK

How long have you got?

10 min 25 min 50 min 90 min 9 of 20 cards still open in week 00 · 11 finished overall

4/15 Run 30 min? W00 Saturday Sandbox optional

Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. T…

Saturday sandbox

Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. The repo habits you are setting up today, justified

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By Sunday you should be able to say: “I know exactly what I will open on Monday and why every file in my cockpit exists.”

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MOMENTUM

What you have actually done

Focus today0 min0 blocks on the timer

Last 7 days0 min0.0 hours measured, not estimated

Streak0days in a row

Cards finished11across the programme

This week11/20

Time on the timer, day by day last 14 days

2026-09-29 18:29 Finished: SciPy docs, scipy.integrate.solve_ivp
2026-09-29 17:44 Finished: LearnChemE (CU Boulder) · "Monod Cell Growth Example (Bio)"
2026-09-28 22:11 Finished: Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules
2026-09-28 21:50 Finished: OpenStax Biology 2e
2026-09-25 11:16 Finished: OpenStax Biology 2e