Lab 1

1. Intro to this lab
   1. In general the structure of today’s lab will be different from the labs in general
   2. Today is about getting everybody on the same page for getting started with class on Tuesday (no fMRI stuff today!)
      1. If you’re already running linux (or very familiar with *nix systems), have an editor, have set up git and a github account, this may seem a little tedious, but I’ll try to give you something to do
2. Laptop check
3. First things first - get installs and tools all set up for Tuesday
   3. First: Piazza
   4. Github
      2. Who doesn’t have a github account yet?
      3. Google form with two entries: student name and github names
   5. OS Poll
      4. Have students who didn’t take it yet fill it out
      5. Show results
   6. Why *nix?
      6. Full control of the computer
      7. CLI is arguable faster (with some training)
         1. More importantly: reproducible!
      8. Most servers run linux
      9. Almost all supercomputers
   7. Discuss options for linux
      10. BCE
      11. Other VM
      12. Dual boot
      13. Account on a server - contact home department about setting up
4. Next - Brief discussion of text editors
   8. ADVANCED: For students that are past this point and using vim, check out pathogen vim system - goal: install simple-vim package
      14. google vim-awesome to explore vim plugins
   9. Graphics based vs. non graphics based:
      15. Programmers in general should be familiar with non-graphics based editors because chances are you will be forced into a non-graphics enabled environment at some point
          2. Recovery
          3. ssh
      16. GUI-based editors:
          4. Simple ones like Gedit, gvim
          5. IDE’s like eclipse
      17. Recommended pathway - get familiar with a non-graphics editor, then switch into an IDE for specific tasks (this pathway is so common, that most IDE’s have key-bindings for the non-graphics based editors like vim)
   10. Vim - steep learning curve (although 30 min is enough to get you started)
       18. vimtutor
   11. emacs - the other of the “big 2”
5. Install git
   12. Who hasn’t installed git?
       19. Help with installs
       20. ADVANCED: For bored students, check out the “hub” project from github
   13. Configure git
       21. Use git config with –global flag
       22. show the .gitconfig file that gets created
6. Next, go through the course intro
   14. http://www.jarrodmillman.com/rcsds/lectures/day01.html
   15. Quiz on Thursday based on “interactive shell” and “basic file management” sections
7. Do the tutorial in tutorial-unix-basics
   16. First, clone the tutorial: https://github.com/berkeley-scf/tutorial-unix-basics.git
   17. You’ll also need another repo which serves as an example directory structure to explore/change/move files: https://github.com/berkeley-stat243/stat243-fall-2014
   18. Split into groups (or solo + screencast) and follow the tutorial