CodeRefinery workshop software installation instructions

In CodeRefinery workshops, we will use and show a number of tools. We give you several options on how to participate (below).

  • If you are using a university-managed computer from the Aalto University, please follow specific instructions.

  • We recommend to ask a colleague/helper/team leader to go over the checklist with you.

What is the minimum of software/accounts I can get away with?

10 minutes

The bare minimum to participate in exercises for workshop week 1 and to only follow week 2 lectures/demonstrations:

You will be able to participate in almost all exercises of week 1 using the web interface of GitHub. This will hopefully give you a good understanding of the basics of Git and GitHub. For your own work after the workshop, you will probably want to use a local editor and Git on your computer.

I want to be able to do the exercises on my computer in an editor

20 minutes

We believe that most learners will choose this option. In this case we recommend two things:

I want to use Git from a terminal, not from an editor

15-60 minutes

In this case you want to use the command line interface for Git. This is good for power users but hard if you haven’t used command lines before:

In workshop week 2, I want to be able to run the exercises on my computer and have all tools available

30-90 minutes

This is only needed if you want to try it out on your own computer, in your own time. We will not ask you to run the exercises during the workshop week 2: