/EngineeringBasics

Setup | Shells | Git | Markdown and IDEs | Virtual Environments | Task Management

Engineering Basics

Getting Started

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Overview

In this workshop, you will setup a local (or virtual environment) consisting of several tools, programming languages, and libraries, to support software engineering work. You will also practice workflows needed to be productive in software engineering.

The primary goal of this workshop is for you have to have installed and learned a set of relevant tools (and processes in your head) for software development.

  1. Setup

    Getting started. Get some tools on your machine.

  2. Shells

    Basic overview of unix shells, shell programming, and windows shell tips.

  3. Version Control with Git

    Basic overview of git. Interactive tutorials for learning commands.

  4. Markdown and IDES

    Overview of markdown basics, lists, code, tables. Recommended editors for code. Creating Github Pages.

  5. Virtual Environments

    Tools for creating and managing virtual computing environments.

  6. Task Management

    Using Github issues and Trello boards for task management.