GNC Software Onboarding

Welcome to the GNC Software Onboarding exercises. Exercise one is available in the exercise_1 folder. Prior to starting, check out the installation and software setup instructions below!

Setup Instructions

Start by installing GCC using the os-specific instructions below. Then follow along with the general development setup instructions at the bottom.

Windows Instructions

1. Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) by running this command in powershell: wsl --install. You may be prompted to restart your laptop.
2. Open the newly-installed WSL app from the start bar. If you are prompted to type in a username and password, do so. The username and password you use does not have to match your laptop password. However, you will need to remember this password in order to log in. The password may not appear on the screen when you type it--this is normal.
3. Run the command sudo apt update and then the command sudo apt upgrade in WSL.
4. Install GCC by running sudo apt-get install gcc -y in WSL.
5. Run gcc --version to ensure that it was installed successfully.
   1. If this command fails, try step 4 again with the command sudo apt install gcc -y
6. From now on, all commands should be run inside WSL, not the normal powershell window.

MacOS Instructions

1. Install homebrew by running /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" and following the steps on the screen. If prompted to install xcode-select, hit install.
2. Restart your terminal app, and then run brew install gcc
3. Run gcc --version to verify that GCC was installed successfully.
4. Run brew install git to install git.
5. Run

Linux Instructions

1. Run sudo apt install gcc in the terminal. You may need to run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade first.
2. Run gcc --version to verify that GCC was installed successfully.

Note that different linux distros may use different package managers.

Developement Setup

1. Install git from https://git-scm.com/downloads
2. Install VSCode from https://code.visualstudio.com/download
3. Open a new VSCode project in new folder and clone the repository by running git clone https://github.gatech.edu/gnc/software-onboarding.git