Setup Colab to Run Treehouse Modules

Walkthrough of setting up Colab to be able to run the Treehouse notebooks

Download repository file and add to Google Drive

• Go to the python-introducing-pandas repository and click the green "Code <>" button

• Select "Download ZIP", then unzip the file on your computer
• Go to your Google Drive and upload the folder you just unzipped into your main drive
• Double click to go into the folder in Google Drive, and make sure it looks something like this:

Start working with the files

• Now you're ready to start going through the exercises, each of which is contained in its own Jupyter notebook (files ending in .ipynb)
• Because we're working in a virtual environment when using Colab, each time you open a notebook you'll need to connect it to Google Drive so that it can read the other files contained in the repository. I've gone ahead and written a code block that you can copy and paste in a new code block at the top of each notebook:

# import drive module
from google.colab import drive
# mount Google Drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
# navigate to working directory548
%cd drive/MyDrive/python-introducing-pandas-master/

• You will be asked to authorize access each time you mount Google Drive to a Colab notebook, but this option means that you're able to save the notebooks in your drive to revisit