Accessing Assignments After DLS Completion

Well, maybe I overstated that a bit: the FAQs cover what happens when you stop paying and how to download everything, but do not cover how to run locally. That turns out to be pretty complicated and there are no official instructions. There are two levels of issues:

  1. There is quite a bit of software you need to get installed in order to run locally.
  2. These courses have not been updated since April 2021 and things mutate quite rapidly in the world of python packages in general. That means you will very likely run into “versionitis” problems if you just install the latest version of everything and then try to run.

Here’s a thread which gives some guidance about how to start down the path of addressing those issues, but the full scope of that is up to you. Here’s another useful thread. Please note that this is beyond the scope of the course and mentors are volunteers here. We don’t get paid to answer your questions, so I hope you will understand that asking us to be your personal IT support staff for running things in whatever environment you happen to have is optional. You may get lucky and find community members who like to discuss that sort of thing (as shown in the threads that I linked), but you can’t demand or expect that kind of support from the course staff or the mentors. It doesn’t hurt to ask, but there are no guarantees of useful responses. Just sayin’ … :grinning: