Development Environment Tools

Keith VanderLinden
Calvin University

Demos

• Storage & Compute
• Development Environment
  • CLI
  • Python
  • VSCode

• Goal: Demo the transition from notebook/cloud to script/local:
  • Referring to the infrastructure deployment diagram as appropriate.
  • Re-using the important terms throughout.
  • Installing the dev-environment as needed.
  • Using the SLO project as an example.

1. Show product.ipynb (from data562-slo) on GoogleColab.
   • Run the notebook.
   • Speculate on the:
     • Storage & Compute (IaaS)
     • Development Environment (PaaS)
   • Show “Runtime”-“View Resources”/“Change runtime type” (IaaS + PaaS).
   • This demo assumes that you’ve locally installed:
     • Linux (e.g., WSL2)
     • Python3
     • VSCode
2. Show local storage & compute.
   • Windows
     • Show system information
     • Show system monitor (ctrl-alt-del)
3. Show local CLI development environment.
   • Local Bash CLI running in a Linux Terminal
     • Linux distribution info: lsb_release -a
     • System information: uname -a
     • Demo basic Linux commands: ls, rm/rm -rf, cd, pwd, mkdir, cat/more, cp/mv, which, ``, …
   • Git runs in the CLI. Demo the SLO repo.
   • Python does too.
     • Run hello.py in VSCode Terminal.
     • Activate the venv and run hello again.
4. Show the local IDE (VSCode running in Windows).
   • Python/venv integration - Run hello.py in VSCode editor window.
     • The WSL2 plugin communicates with WSL2 (see which code in a WSL2 terminal).
     • Hello-world retrospective
       • Revisit the diagram.
       • We’ve spent some time (re)running hello-world. Get used to it. In terms of infrastructure, it’s an important program, with its own Wikipedia page.
   • VSCode plugins
     • Jupyter - Edit/run a notebook (e.g., product.ipynb).
     • View the file system (see: “explorer”)
     • Git/GitHub integration (cf. Modules 2-3) - The Git/Windows Credential Managers run on Windows, not in WSL2.
     • Code editing (create src/hello.py, letting CoPilot create documentation)
     • CLI/WSL2 integration (run hello.py in WSL2 terminal)
       • WSL2 is only for some Windows users.
     • CoPilot/Chat (build a simple script)

Snapshot

See the live demo.

Link a snapshot of the final state of the demo here, with the VSCode editor showing and the terminal window running hello.py.