sp17-i524

Repository: https://github.com/cloudmesh/sp17-i524

Class submissions for Spring 2017 i524

Prerequisites

You will be assigned a homework id (or HID in the rest of this document). You can verify your HID in this Piazza thread.

Additionally, we assume you have a GitHub account an uploaded your SSH key:

• Linux Instructions
• Windows Instructions
• Mac Instructions

We recommend that if you are working on a Windows computer, you download VM Box at https://www.virtualbox.org/ and use an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine to do the assignments.

We will be referring to your GitHub username as YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME in the rest of this document.

Setup Git

1. First, make sure that git on your computer is configured properly. For example:

$ git config --global user.name "Albert Zweistein"
$ git config --global user.email albert.zweistein@gmail.com

2. Fork this repository by clicking the "Fork" button on the top right of this page. You will be redirected to a new page. Verify that your github username is in the url. Eg:

   https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/sp17-i524
   

3. Clone your forked repository:

   git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/sp17-i524.git
   

4. Add the upstream repository https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-remote-for-a-fork/

   $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/cloudmesh/sp17-i524
   

Setting up Each Homework Assignment

Set up your paper or project using the setup script. You can always check the script usage with:

$ ./setup

Thus, if you are getting ready to work on paper and your HID is S17-EX-0000, you would run:

$ ./setup paper1 S17-EX-0000

This creates an S17-EX-0000 directory under paper1, and places a paper template there. You will use that template as the starting point for your paper or project.

NOTE: You should frequently keep your fork up to date

https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

$ git fetch upstream
$ git merge upstream/master

NOTE You should also periodically push your changes to your fork:

$ git push origin master

Working with LaTeX and the Template

You need to make sure that LaTeX is installed on your computer. There are different LaTeX environments for different operating systems. We recommend TeXLive for Linux, MacTeX for OSX, TexLive for Windows. In addition, there are online LaTeX environments that you can use independent of what your OS is. One we recommend is ShareLaTeX. Please note that other distributions you might be tempted to use, such as BasicTex on OSX do not contain all styles and packages by default and you might run into issues. If you don't have previous experience with LaTeX, please stick to the recomendation for your OS.

If you have a LaTeX environment set up on your compute, you can compile the template by using the make utility that comes with the template. For example:

$ cd paper1/S17-EX-0000
$ make

This will compile the contents of the report.tex file in the template directory, resolve the references in references.bib and create a report.pdf. You can then view the report with:

$ make view

If you are using an online environment like ShareLaTeX, you will need to import the template files into it and compile the template that way.

From here on, you can edit report.tex and references.bib to complete your paper or project.

Submission

First, make sure your repository is synchronized with the upstream:

$ git fetch upstream
$ git rebase upstream/master

Build your report using the make command.

Update the README.rst file in your project directory and commit your changes.

IMPORTANT

Your submission will not be accepted unless you update the readme with appropriate values.

Push your changes and submit a pull request:

$ git push origin master

Once you are done with your paper or project, you will need to generate a pull request to

When ready to submit, create a pull request to https://github.com/cloudmesh/sp17-i524 with the subject in the form paper# HID. For example: paper1 S17-EX-0000

Sumitting a Pull Request will trigger a continuous integration test on travis. This will attempt to build the latex file as well as validate your README.rst. If the travis build fails, check the log after clicking the "details" link of the failing build, make the necessary changes, and push once more.

ShareLatex

If you elect to use ShareLatex we have no ready-made instructions for you. However you are allowed to use ShareLatex but you must replicate the directory structure from the latex report precisely. If you were download the ShareLatex content, it needs to be following the original layout we have delivered as part of the instructions. We may not have the time to work with you on uploading and fixing your ShareLatex, this will be up to you.