Development Environment

The development environment a setup of tools for developing, testing an application or a library. In this course, we require student to understand how to set up a development environment on your computer and how to work with remote server including the department SSH server and the GitHub classroom.

Contents:

• C/C++ Development Environment
  • TL;DR
  • Concepts
  • Minimal Requirements
  • Obsolete Environment: SSH Linux Server
  • Local Development Environment
  • Editor vs IDE
  • Toolchain Installation
  • Extended reading
• Remote Linux Server Tutorial
  • SSH client
  • SSH command
  • Linux server
  • Edit in the SSH window
  • File Transfer
• Version Control System and Git
  • Learn git
  • Installation
  • Setup before the first use
  • Git Concepts
  • Subcommands
  • linear workflow
  • Other Workflows (FYI)
  • Advanced topics
• GitHub and GitHub Classroom
  • GitHub.com
  • GitHub Classroom

Note

The use of the SSH server in this course is not as essential as in the COP 3014 course because most of the tests can be done locally and on the GitHub server.