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-# DSE200-notebooks
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+# DSE200-Notebooks-2017
+Repository for the students of DSE200, 2017
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+This repository will be expanded during the quarter and will hold the notebooks we cover in class, 
+the excercise notebooks, and the solutions to those excercises.
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+Students are expected to fork this repository, and to commit their solutions to their private repository.