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CONTRIBUTING: Guidelines for numbering and naming notebooks

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2/5
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1-3 hours
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55/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the existing CONTRIBUTING guidance and review the discussion in #236 for the agreed naming rules. Check how make-live.R handles the -live.R conversion, then document the 00-, numbered, and exercise_ naming conventions, including the ordering examples, in the relevant contribution guidance.

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contributing

Synthesizing what we already have + the discussion from #236:

  • Reference documents (those we do not intend to cover during training) should be prefixed with 00-. If there are multiple references for a document, 00 should be followed by a lowercase letter that reflects their order, e.g., 00a-, 00b-.
  • Notebooks that are covered with participants are sequentially ordered, e.g., 01-, 02-.
    • These become -live.Rmd when we run make-live.R.
  • Exercise notebooks should be prefixed with exercise_<NUMBER>- and numbered sequentially. If there are multiple notebooks for a given topic, use lowercase letters after the number. For example, from the
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