At the end of this assignment, I need you to take these screenshots of your computer and upload them to the HW1 assignment on Sakai:
Yes, I know you already have a web browser on your computer. If you’re anything like the rest of America, there’s a 65% chance the primary web browser you use is Chrome. If you have a Mac, you have Safari and you may use that, too. But the browser I support for this class is called Firefox. I like it because it is free and open sourced software developed by the non-profit Mozilla organization that does a lot of good work to protect privacy, keep the web open and support journalists.
Feel free to use any browser you like. But just know that they all behave a little differently and Firefox is the only one I can help you troubleshoot.
Step 2: Change your Firefox settings so that it prompts you for the location to save a file each time you download one. (We will be downloading a lot of files this semester, and we want to keep your laptop tidy.)
Step 3: Set the default behavior for what happens when you click on a .csv or a .zip file in Firefox
Click on the N.C. State Board of Elections’ list of polling places used in the 2019 municipal elections. Follow these instructions to make Firefox ask you where you want to save .csv files any time you click on one of them.
Click on the N.C. State Board of Elections’ collection of precinct-by-precinct election results in the 2019 municipal elections. Follow these instructions to make Firefox ask you where you want to save .zip files any time you click on one of them.
Step 1: At some point in the semester you will likely find yourself wishing that certain types of files on your computer opened in the application you want them to use. For example, maybe you’re a Mac users and want your .csv files to open in Excel and not Numbers. Here’s how you change those settings on Mac OS X and on Windows
Step 2: Create a new folder (also called a directory) inside your Documents folder. Call it “MEJO570”.
Step 3: Also at some pointin the semester, you will likely want to see “hidden” files on your computer. Here are the instructors for changing your computer’s settings to allow you to see these hidden files on Windows and OSX (Added 1/29/20)