Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

Practical example

If you're following the code for this book, you might have cloned it directly from GitHub. In that case, there should be a hidden (your operating system won't show it by default) .git folder inside—that's where all the old files are stored. You can access this folder at .git, or see it using ls -la command—but you shouldn't change it manually until you're sure you know what you're doing. As we don't want to break this repository, let's create a new project.

First, let's create another, empty folder—you can do that via the standard graphical interface on your machine, or via the Terminal. The following code will create a new folder and add a README file to it:

$ cd ../../$ mkdir MyProject;$ cd MyProject;$ echo MyProject > ...