This is the repository where you can download everything we need for the UMass Amherst Engineering Class "From Spark to Ignition, Establishing a Plan for Entrepreneurial Success"
It also has a bunch of things I have found useful in my educational journey.
- Power Point Presentations for some of the classes (still working on some of them)
- Example mind map as an image and "mind map" format for use with Docear, although outdated, still the best mind map software out there: https://docear.org/
- Template one page Business Plan
- Example filled out business plan
- Instructions on how to run a ipython notebook (sparkignite.ipynb)
(you may or may not be using this in this class, it is just very useful to have handy - it is basically a really powerful calculator)
Install Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads
Install git: https://git-scm.com/download/win
In GitHub.com, click on the green "<> Code" button and choose "Download Zip"
- Then open VS Code and go File👉Preferences👉Profiles👉Import Profile
- In the upper center of the screen, a dropdown select menu will appear.
- Choose "Select File".
- Navigate to folder that has all the files from this GitHub repository and choose the file:
for_spark.code-profile
- On the left-hand sidebar, click: "Create Profile"
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Press Ctrl+Shift+` or Cmd+Shift+`. The ` button is the one to the left of the 1 key This will open a terminal window
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Then copy and paste into the terminal
./micromamba.exe shell hook -s powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
This will activate Micro Mamba, a self-contained python environment -
Then run:
micromamba create -f environment.yml
This will install most of the necessary libraries. -
Then run
micromamba activate sparkignite
This will activate the newly created development environment -
There are a few libraries that can't be installed using the
micromamba
command, for these, you need to use pip, the "Python Package Index"
There is a file calledpip.sh
. Open that and copy its contents and past it into the terminal. Once it is done, you should be all set! -
Now you need to make some changes to the VS Code
settings.json
file in the.vscode
folder so that the application knows where to find python.