Personal Computer Setup

This page describes the steps necessary to complete programming assignments on your personal computer.

Step 1: Install Anaconda

The official download page for Anaconda is here: Anaconda Distribution. Make sure that you download the Python 3 version.

Step 2: Setup access to your Git repository

To access your available Git repositories on your personal computer, you need to copy over the appropriate SSH related files from the University Linux server. The SSH files act as your password to access the course repositories so they need to be on your personal computer.

Open Git BASH on Windows (Download link) or a terminal emulator on OSX or Linux, go to your home directory, and copy your SSH keys and configuration file to your machine with the following commands:


      cd

      scp USER@csitrd.kutztown.edu:~/.ssh/USER_git_id* ~/.ssh/

      scp USER@csitrd.kutztown.edu:~/.ssh/config ~/.ssh/

where USER is your university id.

Step 3: Setup the initial Git configuration

Git needs some configuration information before you can start making commits to your course repository. The minimal configuration requires that you set your name and email address. This can be done by executing the following two commands:


    git config --global user.name "Your Name"

    git config --global user.email "USER@live.kutztown.edu"

where USER is your university ID.

You may optionally choose to set the default text editor that Git will use to create commit messages like so:


    git config --global core.editor "nano"

The nano text editor is a decent choice on the Linux server if you are unfamiliar with the other options.

Step 4: Clone your Git repository

In Git BASH on Windows or a terminal emulator on OSX or Linux, clone your repository with the following command:


    git clone git-server:spring2020/csc223-SECTION-USER NAME

where SECTION is the three digit section number, USER is your university ID, and NAME is an optional name for your course repository.

Step 5: Link your repository to the assignments repository

In Git BASH on Windows or a terminal emulator on OSX or Linux, to setup the link to assignments repository execute following command from within the local repository (that means cd into your repository directory):


    git remote add assignments git-server:spring2020/csc223-SECTION-assignments

where SECTION is the three digit section number. This command only needs to be executed a single time after initially cloning the private repository.