Week 1: Intro & HTML Primer

August 24-30, 2025

📖 Reading

• Syllabus
• Web Scraping

🥣 Prepare for class

• Ensure R, python, quarto, RStudio are installed on your machine (Computer setup help)
• Print out and bring cheat sheets for R and python (if you need them)

🌮 Tuesday

• Discussion: Syllabus

🌩️ Thursday 🔨

• Lecture: HTML/XML primer

🏋 Practice Your Skills

• Get familiar with HTML and web-based vocabulary:
  • Watch HTTP and HTML explanation
  • Watch Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Requests
  • Watch Control a web browser from R to web scrape static and dynamic websites using {chromote}