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Foundations Course

Tentative Schedule

FC Schedule

Requirements

In case you need any help installing any of this, please ask your study buddy or come to one of the b-it-bots labs (C025 and C069).

Software

  • Ubuntu 16.04

  • ROS Kinetic. Installation instructions can be found here

  • LaTeX

    sudo apt-get install texlive-full

  • texMaker

  • TeXstudio

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunderme/texstudio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texstudio

  • python 2.7 (Already installed with Ubuntu 16)

  • Jupyter notebooks

    sudo pip install jupyter

  • Visual Studio Code

  • PyCharm EDU

  • git

    sudo apt-get install git-all

  • Java 8

    Please visit the Oracle wesbite and download the latest stable Java JDK version available.

    1. Download Java SE Development Kit 8 The following link leads you to the download website for the Java SE Development Kit 8. Make sure you download one of the two versions:

      • 32-bit: jdk-8u161-linux-i586.tar.gz
      • 64-bit: jdk-8u161-linux-x64.tar.gz

    2. Move the extracted JDK files to /opt/Oracle_Java/

      • Extract the JDK files from the downloaded tar.gz.
      • Create the folder Oracle_Java in the directory /opt/:
      sudo mkdir /opt/Oracle_Java
      • Move the folder jdk1.8.0_161 to /opt/Oracle_Java/:
      sudo mv ~/Downloads/jdk1.8.0_161/ /opt/Oracle_Java/

    3. Set up and configure the evironment variables Set up the environment variables by executing the following commands one by one:

      sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/java" 1

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/javac" 1

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/javaws" 1

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/jar" "jar" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/jar" 1

      Configure the environment variables by executing the following commands one by one:

      sudo update-alternatives --set "java" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/java"

sudo update-alternatives --set "javac" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/javac"

sudo update-alternatives --set "javaws" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/javaws"

sudo update-alternatives --set "jar" "/opt/Oracle_Java/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/jar"

    After finishing the aforementioned steps the Java JDK installation is complete and the development with Java can begin.

  • Eclipse

    Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is well suited for Java development. The following steps describe how to set it up.

    1. Download the latest Eclipse version

    2. Set up Eclipse

      • Extract the content of the tar.gz folder and rund eclipse-inst.
      • Choose Eclipse IDE for Java Developers and foolow the instructions.

    3. Lock Eclipse to your launcher (Optional)

      • Go to the folder in which you have installed Eclipse.
      • Run Eclipse and right click its icon in the launcher. Then choose the option Lock to Launcher.

References

The sources of the files used in this repository can be found here