COMP6710 - home - CECS - ANU Skip navigation Computer Science Courses ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science EXPLORE ANU » Home About Study Research Giving Alumni Current students Staff News Events Maps Library Jobs ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU College of Asia & the Pacific ANU College of Business & Economics ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science ANU College of Law ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences » more academic areas A-Z INDEX » A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Search query Search button Computer Science Courses ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Courses School of Computer Science Current students Courses list COMP6710 Home Schedule Lectures Labs Assessment Assignment Deliverables Resources Step-by-Step Videos Working Remotely Learning Objectives Related sites Wattle Forums ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science Current students (ANU) Working Remotely Please take the time to read the following important notice before looking for tools for your home environment. Like most other computer science courses at ANU, this course is designed on the assumption that you will use the laboratory environment provided at ANU. The laboratory environment is supported by ANU technical staff and I have done my best to ensure that that environment works well in every respect. When things are not working in the lab, you should inform your tutor and/or the technical staff, who are located on the ground floor of the CIST building in N117. For your convenience, I have tried hard to facilitate you working from a home environment --- by using freely available tools that run on most major platforms and providing you with basic installation instructions. Please understand that your home environment, should you choose to use it, is not supported by the ANU. If you wish to use your own environment, please follow these steps: Use the advice provided on these web pages to identify the appropriate tools, and how to install them. Complete the Lab 1 exercises in week one and bring any questions that arise to any of the week one labs. Use Piazza to seek help from others in the class. Seek help from your tutor during your scheduled lab. Seek help from me during office hours or at lectures. Seek help from the Computer Science Student's Association (CSSA), who explicitly set out to help their members with matters such as setting up home computers. The ANU and myself cannot support your personal environment because each environment may differ in ways that are entirely outside of our control. Installing Tools All of the software tools you will need are provided as part of the standard environment in the RSCS computer labs. The tools are freely available for Linux, Windows and MacOS X, so if you wish to work on your own computer, you can easily do so. Please read the notice above before following the instructions below. We will do our best to support anyone using these standard tools. You are most welcome to use alternatives (such as a different IDE, etc), but you should not expect any support when you run into trouble using non-standard tools. For that reason, I strongly recommend that you stick to the supported tools unless you are quite confident in your ability to resolve any problems that may arise with non-standard tools. Furthermore, the lab tests will be conducted in the lab environment, so you will need to be proficient with the standard tools for the lab tests, regardless of which tools you choose to use at home. Java If you wish to develop code on your own computer, you will need to ensure that you have Java 1.8 update 45 or more recent installed. This is the version currently installed on the lab machines. At the time of writing the most recent version available from Oracle is 1.8 update 92. Please follow instructions from the Oracle website to test and install the "Java Platform (JDK)". Verify the version of your installation by typing "java -version" (the output should be "1.8.0_45" or more recent). IntelliJ We will use the IntelliJ IDE from JetBrains (the same people who produce PyCharm). There are two versions available. In the lab we will use the Ultimate Edition, but you may either get a student license so that you can use the Ultimate Edition at home, or you can simply use the Community Edition, which is open source. The only feature of the Ultimate Edition that is important to this course is its ability to generate UML diagrams, which is not a major part of the course. You should therefore find that the Community Edition is perfectly adequate. When you start IntelliJ for the first time you will be asked to configure the SDK. The SDK's location will be machine-specific. Typically on MacOS you will find it at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_xx.jdk. On Windows it will most likely be C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_xx.jdk, or C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_xx.jdk. If you can't see it in those places, try using the file finder in the respective operating system and search for jdk1.8.0. Git We will use GitLab and git. For this to work, you will need to have git installed on your computer. You should find this already installed on most MacOS and Unix platforms (type 'git --version' at the command line to check). However, you will most likely need to install it yourself if you're using windows. Follow the instructions on the git downloads page. If you run into troubles using Git from within IntelliJ on Windows, go to Configure (at the bottom of the IntelliJ UI) -> Settings -> Version Control -> Git, then change the link at the top to match the location of the Git executable (should be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe)). 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