lab00 : Getting started

num ready? description assigned due
lab00 true Getting started Mon 01/07 09:00AM Thu 01/10 11:59PM

Introduction

Your first lab for this week is an introduction to programming on CSIL and tools for this course. The intended outcomes are:

This lab must be completed INDIVIDUALLY. In the subsequent labs you are encouraged to work with your programming partner.

Tell us about yourself

Please fill out the following form to tell us about yourself. We will use the information to pair you with your preferred programming partner or someone in the class with the similar skill levels as your self. Here is the link to the form http://bit.ly/CS24-ic00-AboutYou

Answer all the questions in the form to earn credit for this part (50 points).

Get setup with the tools for this course

Create a CoE account if you don’t have one already

We encourage you to complete all programming assignments by logging in to the machines in the Computer Science labs, or to connect remotely. To do this you will need a College of Engineering account. You can create an account online at https://accounts.engr.ucsb.edu/create.

If you are enrolled in any CoE course this quarter (including CS24), you can create your account immediately. If you are not, you will need to contact the ECI Help Desk at help@engineering.ucsb.edu.

Get setup with github

We will be using github.com in this course. We have created an organization called ucsb-cs24-w19-mirza on github.com where you can create repositories (repos) for your assignments in this course. The advantage of creating private repos under that organization is that the course staff (your instructors, TAs and mentors) will be able to see your code and provide you with help, without you having to do anything special.

To join this organization, you need to do three things.

  1. If you don’t already have a github.com account, create one on the “free” plan. Visit www.github.com

  2. If you don’t already have your @umail.ucsb.edu email address associated with your github.com account. go to “settings”, add that email, and confirm that email address.

  3. Visit our Github Sign Up Tool, login with your github.com account, click “Home”, find this course (CS24-W19), and click the “join course button”. That will automatically send you an invitation to join the course organization on github.

  4. Accept the invitation that appears in your browser (from step 3) or log into your account on www.github.com to accept the invitation.

Get setup with gradescope

We will use gradescope to grade all your homeworks, exams and lab/programming assignments. You should have received an email notification with instructions about logging into gradescope.

Log into our class site onwww.gradescope.com: CS24 Winter 2019 and navigate to the lab00 assignment

Implement and submit a simple C++ program

Open a Terminal and write a simple “Hello World” program

Open a terminal window, which will be the environment you use to write, compile, and run your programs.

If you are working on your laptop, whether Windows, Mac or Linux, the instructions below will tell you how to connect to csil.cs.ucsb.edu. For now its okay to connect to that server, however in the future please connect to one of the following machines:

If you are on a Mac laptop, open a terminal and type the following ssh command to connect to one of the servers remotely

ssh -X yourCoEaccount@csil-02.cs.ucsb.edu

If you are using a Windows, you will need to install the program MobaXterm

For more information on how to ssh, please refer to Step 1 of lab00 from cs16: https://ucsb-cs16-w19-mirza.github.io/lab/lab00/

You’ll get much better performance on those individual machines, because they are much less heavily loaded and have newer hardware, as compared to csil.cs.ucsb.edu.

Create cs24 and lab00 directories

Now that your environment is set up, you will need to create a directory that will contain all your work for the course. Then, inside that directory, you will need to create another directory to contain your work for this assignment.

To create your CS24 directory, use the mkdir command. Type the following in the terminal and press enter:

$ mkdir cs24

Change into that directory and create a lab00 directory

$ mkdir lab00
$ cd lab00   

Create a new file called hello.cpp using an editor of your choice (either vim or emacs)

Useful links related to emacs

Useful information related to vim for UNIX-based OS

cp /cs/faculty/dimirza/vim-configuration/example_dotvimrc/.vimrc ~/

This assignment only needs you to write a program in hello.cpp that prints out two lines on the display, and nothing else. The output should look exactly as follows (no space before or after each line, except the 2 newlines):

Hello, world!
I am ready for CS24!

Create a repo on github in our class organization

For this lab and all subsequent programming assignments, you should start by creating a repo in the ucsb-cs24-w19-mirza organization following these steps

new-repo

Upload your code using github’s web interface

Submit your program for grading to gradescope

It’s time to submit your program to gradescope. Go to www.gradescope.com. Log into your account and navigate to our course site.Select this assignment. Then click on the “Submit” button on the bottom right corner to make a submission.

You will be given the option of directly uploading files from your local machine or submitting the code that is in a github repo. We recommend that you choose the latter option as shown in the figure below. This will ensure that our staff sees the version of code on github that you submitted to gradescope.

submit

You should receive 50 points on this part of the assignment.

Congratulations on completing the workflow for CS24 programming assignments using the tools that we will be using in this class i.e. gradescope and github. In the next labs we will integrate the command line interface of github into this workflow