20151216 Jonathan has kindly granted me this short term RAship. He does not mind to pay me to learn! I joined his asana group, which can replace email for a group of researchers; git which replace dropbox for researchers (and you need to know version control). Here are some very useful tech sources, which are tasks he gave me before I can do the research.
Code and Data for Social Science - A Practitioner's Guide by Gentzkow and Shapiro
http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
Asana
https://asana.com/guide/help/tags-email/keyboard
Favorites shortcut:
Tab+A = assign task
Tab+M = assign task to myself
Tab+D = add a due date
Tab+Q = quickly create a task
Tab+Y = mark a task for Today in your My Tasks list
Asana Intro and Help
https://asana.com/guide/help/fundamentals/welcome
Git
Note: After you edit your file, "staging&commit" (when you like your updated version), "pushing" (uploading to the cloud).
To download a file (so that you have the latest version), you must ask git to "pull" the changes down from the cloud.
Every time you same, git asks you for a "commit message" that describe the change you made.
Git Tutorial
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials
Install Git: http://git-scm.com
Then go to Terminal, you can type and type "git" to make sure you have git installed.
Type
mkdir github: make a github folder
cd github
ls
mkdir tryingout
cd tryingout
git init: initialize
git status
git add try.txt
git commit -m "Init project, learning git"
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/sk/default.htm
Sublime allows you to write on any file type: download and install sublime2 and skim. Install package control on sublime2w. https://jj09.net/latex-with-sublimetext-and-skim/