WSQ01 – Get Coding

Get Coding

Editor (for all groups)

You will want a nice code editor. This decision is personal but we’ve had good experience with the following but I’m open to other suggestions:

• Atom from the folks at GitHub
• Notepad++ (Windows only I believe)
• Emacs (Ken’s personal favourite)
• Vim (if I don’t list this here, people will attack me).

TC1014 (Python Group)

Setup your home machine (laptop/desktop/typewriter/stone tablet) to run Python3 (yes version 3 not 2)

I could give you the link but that would be too easy, try looking on the Python.org webpage.

TC1017 (C++ Group)

Setup your home machine (laptop/desktop/typewriter/stone tablet) to run the GNU C++ compiler (g++).

You can do this various ways depending on your platform.

• For Linux if using Ubuntu, simply install the packages gcc-g++ and make (for now)
• For Mac, you should be able to do this with command-line tools for XCode or using Homebrew to install
• For Windows, you probably want to use Cygwin to do this.

Blog about it

As always, write a blog post about your progress and include #wsq01 as a category/tag or even just inside the text of your blogpost to help the FeedWordPress hamsters pull it into the course blog.

 

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