Throughout the semester each student will work on an individual project, which you will summarize in a final technical paper. You will showcase and document your work through a private git repository following this template.

The organization of this repository is as follows:

abstract.md
journal.md
doc/
src/
etc/

• The file abstract.md simply contains an abstract of the project. At first, it is an aspirational abstract, one that describes the research program you want to complete. You will refine it through the semester.
• The file journal.md is a diary of your progress. It contains dated entries with a description of what you are doing, what you found, what you are thinking, and so on. It is mainly a resource for you, but I will glance at it too (at the end of the semester). Please update and commit it at least once per week.
• The doc/ directory contains the LaTeX document that you are writing. We will provide a template for your final paper.
• The src/ directory contains the code you are writing. The data you are analyzing should live here too.
• The etc/ directory contains anything else — materials, notes, photos of whiteboards, and so on — that you want to keep track of. There should be nothing else in the top level directory of your repository.

Commit often, at least every week. You are graded on the quality of the project and the path that you took to get there.