Getting Started

This is a short guide that highlights all of the tools & setup you need to be familiar with to settle into DPST1093!

1. Coding Environment

For DPST1093, all you need is the program NodeJS, the program Git , and VSCode . How you these setup will depend on which kind of environment you try and setup. You can choose one below:

• 🍎1. Using the CSE machines directly via VLAB (beginners with stable internet)
• 🍊2. Running everything locally on Windows (for advanced students)
• 🍏3. Running everything locally on MacOS (for advanced students)

If you like using VLAB - it might be better to connect to it locally via VSCode rather than using TigerVNC. I recommend following this guide to setup your VSCode to connect to vlab directly: https://abiram.me/cse-setup

2. Course Work

• WebCMS
  • Lectures and Annoucements
• Gitlab
  • This is the tool used to host all your code for Tutorials, Labs, Major Project.
  • Git is a programming tool for version control (like a history tracker) and collaboration (like dropbox / one drive)
  • You have a series of "git repositories":
    • 1 for all lectures/tutorials (read-only)
    • 20~ git repositories for all of the lab activities throughout the course
    • 1 shared repository for your group project

3. Communication

There are three main communication platforms that are used in this course, and they can all be used without downloading any native applications:

• Microsoft Teams
  • This is used for running online tutorials and labs.
  • This is the course forum where you can ask questions
  • This is used for (online) help sessions.
  • This is used for communicating with your other group members for the major project .
  • You can connect to Microsoft teams by going here . Every UNSW College student can log into Microsoft teams using their zID/zPassword

4. Other resources

The following resources may help you gain a better understanding of javascript and/or git

• Git:
  • UNSW Git videos
  • Atlassian's "Learn Git"