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These are the notes I took from the first run through. Someone else giving the course will likely want to address these issues in some fashion.

• Most importantly, the use of the Jupyter notebook was suboptimal. Tab completion and similar simply don't work as well as they do at the terminal. The up-arrow doesn't work at all. Likely cutting-and-pasting the commands into the terminal would be a better learning experience. (Alternatively, a series of script files that are opened by some form of linear terminal in which one must always start from the top may make a better learning experience, but that would need developing.)
• The difference between single and double quotes was very unclear.
• Similarly, the difference between relative and absolute paths needs explaining.
• At least for working with BAND, it was unclear how to download a copy of the notebook changes. Having users install CyberDuck or similar on their laptops would allow pushing to then pulling from S3.
• For the login to BAND at least on computer lab computers, extra time is needed for logging into Chrome.
• There can be issues with rendering Zarr on Firefox in BAND. Try Chrome.
• Get all students to create a post on image.sc (See "Hi my name is")
• The use of "mc config host add" needs to be better explained.