DSIB01 Autumn 2021
01 Tooling
Mgr. Eliška Chalupová
375973@mail.muni.cz
Practicals overview
● Linux set-up
● Version Control Systems
● Git
● Markdown
● Coding Environment
● Hands-on example
● Project set-up
Linux set-up
VirtualBox
1. Get VirtualBox for Windows at
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2. Download a pre-installed machine (DSIB_VM.ova) from
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DQYTS6YLkomvgGglu1ce5LAcLCAyx9AI/view?usp=sharing
3. Import the machine
4. Start & Log-in (usr: student, pswd: 1234)
Version Control System
Benefits
1. A complete long-term change history of every file
Version Control System
Benefits
1. A complete long-term change history of every file
2. Enables recovery
Version Control System
Benefits
1. A complete long-term change history of every file
2. Enables recovery
3. Simplifies team work
Version Control System
Types
1. Local VCS
2. Centralized VCS
3. Distributed VCS
Version Control System
Types
1. Local VCS
2. Centralized VCS
3. Distributed VCS
Version Control System
Types
1. Local VCS
2. Centralized VCS
3. Distributed VCS
Git
Repository
Anyone with a copy of the repo can:
● Check the history
● Clone
● Commit
● Branch
● Merge
● Compare changes
● …
Working models:
● Fork and Pull
● Shared Repository
Git
Hosting
Git
Hosting
https://education.github.com/pack
Hands-on
1. Set-up Git
● Check Git availability on the machine, and if needed
download Git from https://git-scm.com/downloads
● Choose a Git hosting page & set-up an account
● Fork the Demo repository at
https://github.com/eliska-chalupova/DSIB01demo or
create a repository with the same structure
Git
Windows
https://gitforwindows.org/
Git Bash
Client Platform Website
Linux, Mac, Windows https://www.gitkraken.com/
Linux, Mac, Windows https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
GitHub Desktop Mac, Windows https://desktop.github.com/
Mac, Windows https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Git
GUI Clients
Git
GUI Clients
Hands-on
2. GUI Client
● Download and run a GUI client of Your choice
● Open Your repository
● Look around
Git
Good practices
● Create branches
● Make small commits
● Write meaningful commit messages
● Use pull requests
● Review and discuss code
● Rebase often
Markdown
Briefly
“Markdown is a lightweight markup language for
creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.”
Hands-on
3. Markdown
● Write a text in Your Project Report / README file
● Use elements of the Markdown syntax
Coding Environment
Code Editor vs IDE
Coding Environment
Free Code Editors
Code Editor Platform Website
Linux, Mac, Windows https://atom.io/
Linux, Mac, Windows https://code.visualstudio.com/
Windows https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Linux https://www.vim.org/
Coding Environment
Free IDEs
IDE Platform Website
Linux, Mac, Windows
https://www.jetbrains.com/shop/eform
/students
Mac, Windows
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/c
ommunity/
Linux, Mac, Windows https://netbeans.apache.org//
Linux https://www.eclipse.org/eclipseide/
Coding Environment
Jupyter Notebook
“The Jupyter
Notebook is an
open-source web
application that
allows you to create
and share documents
that contain live code,
equations,
visualizations and
narrative text.”
Coding Environment
Jupyter Notebook
Uses include:
● data cleaning and
transformation,
● numerical simulation,
● statistical modeling,
● data visualization,
● machine learning, and
much more.
Coding Environment
Jupyter Notebook
https://jupyter.org/try
Hands-on
4. Environment
● Get a Code Editor or IDE of Your choice
● Open the repository / selected file
● Make changes in one of the files in the /demo folder
● Push the changes to Your remote repository
Hands-on
5. Play with Git
Try out diverse Git commands:
○ Create a local / remote branch
○ Commit
○ Check status
○ Create stash
○ Push
○ Merge two branches
○ Add a tag
○ ...
● Set up an account on a Git-hosting site
● Create a repository with the structure as in https://github.com/eliska-chalupova/DSIB01demo
● The repository will be used for all the materials for Your project throughout the course
● Use the README file to write Your project report
● Write & discuss all the results throughout the course in the project report
● You will present Your project at the colloquium by the end of semester
Project
Set-up
Questions ?
Mgr. Eliška Chalupová
375973@mail.muni.cz