Programming Introduction Course

Welcome to the introductory course for new computer scientist students at the University of Berne. This course should give you an overview of how to use the terminal, write simple bash scripts, create professional scientific documents using latex and get the basics of programming in ruby.

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All the course material is available on github.

Make sure you have access to a decent unix machine (OS X is partially ok) with a decent terminal (iTerm under OS X is the only decent solution there). If you are under Windows either thing about installing a Linux distribution as a second system on your PC or use a virtualization solution to run a linux in parallel with your current system.
Load the course material from github using git.
```
  git clone git://github.com/dh83/pi.git
```
If this should fail you have to blame most probably the university's proxy. In order to make this work properly you have to manually set the proxy in the current shell:
```
  export http_proxy=http://proxy.unibe.ch:80/
```
This will create a folder name pi, type the following into your current shell to change (cd) into the freshly loaded folder (pi.git) and list its contents with the command ls:
```
  ls
  cd pi.git
  ls
```
Now start by reading the first file in this directory. In order to read a text file we use the command less. And note that you do not have to type the full name of the file (here 'FAQ.txt'), it is simply enough to type 'F' and the the tab key. You will get a list or a single file/folder name whose name starts with the letters you typed previously:
```
  less FAQ.txt 
```
You can start by learning about vim a potent command line text editor. You will use vim constantly during this course for editing or reading text files. To start change into the vim director, remember to use tab-completion:
```
  cd 01_vim_introduction
  less README.md
```
If something is unclear use the manpages (for instance man less to get help about the less command), use the internet or ask the mentors.

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Programming Introduction Course

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