Unit: Environment Setup
Overview
This unit covers getting the development environment working: Git, WSL, LaTeX, Cursor, repo structure, and reproduce.sh.
By the end of this unit, students should have:
- A working Git + WSL (Windows) or Git + terminal (Mac) setup
- LaTeX installed and able to compile documents
- Cursor configured as their IDE
- Experience running
reproduce.sh for doc builds and minimal computations
- Selected a ballpark paper of interest
This unit represents the Tools phase of the course:
- Phase 1 (Tools): Environment Setup ← You are here
- Phase 2 (Skills): Research Skills
- Phase 3 (Artifacts): Contribution
Workflows in this unit
- Git fetch/pull on ballpark
- Cursor environment install
- Launch Cursor in ballpark
- Ballpark paper selection (Assignment 010)
- PaperPile bibliography (Assignment 020)
Key resources
- Econ-ARK ballpark: https://github.com/econ-ark/ballpark
- Methods course Git intro: Start Learning Git