Computer Setup

In general, you will need to have the ability to install software! We know that this is becomingly increasingly rare due to security restrictions.

Workshop environment

We will be using Docker for this workshop. Docker allows us to create environments that contain all of the software required to work with cogent3, isolated from the rest of your computers specific setup.

Development environment

We will be using Visual Studio code (VS Code, download here). VS Code is a free, open source, cross platform code editor that is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux.

We will be using VS Code to deploy and manage our isolated environment, as well as to write code that will interact with Cogent3

Configuring your environment

To install these and get them ready for the workshop follow the steps in configuring your environment