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Example hacks!!! This shows procedures performed by student, not the procedures for the entire class. Modified or prunned for specific machine.

Hacks

Complete the procedure below accurately. These are absolutely required and must be 100% accurate for your success.

GitHub Account

MacOS 1st Time Developer

VSCode install

Anaconda install

  • Download for MacOS: Anaconda
  • Run Install: Answer yes to questions

Homebrew install

  • Copy and Paste to Install from Terminal Homebrew
    • Copy bash ... curl ... command using copy box on website
    • Launch terminal from search bar
    • Paste bash ... curl ... command into Terminal …
    • Make sure command starts, this should provide feedback/output in terminal and could take a long time, like 10-min, there could be a prompt in the middle, at about 5-minutes. Follow any on screen instructions provided in terminal output to finish.
  • Homebrew installs a tool called “brew” which helps add and manage developer packages on MacOS.

At this point, the next task is to prepare tools. You must start a new Terminal. Now the Terminal prompt should be prefixed with (base). If not, you need to go back to Anaconda install.

  • Open new Terminal, your prompt should look like this… 
    (base) iMac:~ jmort1021$

Key Packages needed on MacOS

  • Close and Start a new terminal, run each command in Terminal 
    $ brew list # list packages
$ brew update # update package list
$ brew upgrade # upgrade packages
$ brew install git  # install latest git
$ brew install python # install python3 for development
$ python --version # version of python3 installed

    Windows 1st Time Developer

    VSCode install using WSL. Windows users have option to have best of Windows and Linux while developing within VSCode.

  • Install VSCode using WSL.
  • Required review, become familiar with Windows WSL development

Anaconda install on WSL.

  • Try the exact commands in WSL Command / Powershell.
  • Only if there is a wget error… To find the latest Linux-x86 distribution hover over 64-Bit (x86) Installer of this page: https://www.anaconda.com/download#downloads. Hover over wget and Anaconda3 commands based on new link. 
    PS C:\Users\UserName> wsl  # Windows prompt to WSL command
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2023.03-1-Linux-x86_64.sh
$ chmod +x Anaconda3-2023.03-1-Linux-x86_64.sh
# Answer yes to all the prompts
$ ./Anaconda3-2023.03-1-Linux-x86_64.sh

At this point, the next task is to prepare for Packages, Jupyter Notebooks, and Kernels. You must start a new WSL Command / Powershell. Now the WSL prompt should be prefixed with (base) from Anaconda install. If not, you need to go back to Anaconda install.

  • Open Command / Powershell. If you are not looking like this you need to back up. 
    PS C:\Users\ShayM> wsl  # Windows prompt
(base) shay@MSI:/mnt/c/Users/ShayM$ cd ~ # WSL prompt
(base) shay@MSI:~$ # WSL home, best place to install files

Key Packages needing update on WSL Ubuntu

  • In a WSL Command / Powershell install Python3 ```bash $ sudo apt list # list packages $ sudo apt update # update package list $ sudo apt upgrade # upgrade packages $ sudo apt install python3 python3-pip # install python3 and pip3 for development $ python –version # version of python3 should be shown

Jupyter Install and Kernels (MacOs and WSL)

Install Jupyter and check python kernel

(base) id:~$ conda --version 
(base) id:~$ conda install jupyter # install jupyter
(base) id:~$ jupyter kernelspec list # list installed kernels
Available kernels:
  python3    /home/shay/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3
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