SciBot

Users

The primary method to run SciBot is via the runSciBot.exe.

Go to https://github.com/stfc/SciBot/releases/latest
Download runSciBot.exe and scenarios.zip into the same place
Unzip scenarios.zip
Run runSciBot.exe (by double clicking it.)

Developers

If you wish to develop for SciBot, clone the repository and create a feature branch off of develop. Once your feature is ready, make a Pull Request back into develop. SciBot is written in Python 3, hence you will need to install the Python interpreter first. We recommend using Python 3.6.

Requirements for developing, testing and building SciBot

To install SciBot's requirements, run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Building the runSciBot.exe file

If you wish to build a new runSciBot.exe file, run the following command:

pyinstaller --windowed -F runSciBot.py

Image Sources

SciBot image sourced from: https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/bee-bot-sequence-powerpoint-6415227

A note about version numbers

SciBot tries to use semantic versioning with respect to the API exposed to the user by the scenario class/files. This means that for any given major version of the SciBot executable, all previous scenario files (that share the same major version) should continue to work as they did when the scenario file was created.

As a result of this, we consider a breaking API change to be a change that prevents an older scenario file (that shares the current major version) from working as expected with the next release of SciBot. If such a change is merged, the next release would be the next major version.

Changes that are not exposed to the user by the scenario class/files will not be considered breaking API changes.