Introduction to Tools and Techniques in Computer Science

Contents:

Setup, writing structured text, and file management

Remote connections and command-line file management

Compiling and running code, version control

Advanced version control, project management

Advanced shell usage

Getting help and digital notebooks

Debugging (strategies and usage)

Command-line environment

Shell scripting

Build systems and dependency management

Containers, virtual machines, and “The Cloud ™”

Running your own Linux system

Summary

Franklin Bristow

When you’re developing code outside of your academic career (and even within your academic career), you’re going to be writing code that goes beyond a single file. Different languages prefer to use different tools for handling building your code and managing dependencies, and these tools can be very opinionated in how they work (Maven) to not at all opinionated (make).

You should now be able to:

Download and run a program that requires you to install dependencies.
Create a Makefile to accomplish a task (building software, running commands).
Create a new empty software project that includes a build and dependency management tool.
- Add and use a new dependency in a software project.