Creating your account on submit.cs

1. Go to https://submit.cs.ucsb.edu
2. Click “Create Account”.
3. Use your @umail.ucsb.edu account to create your account.
4. Then, login at https://submit.cs.ucsb.edu
5. Click “Join Class”, and find the button “Join CMPTGCS_1a_f16”. Click it.

Logging into CSIL from a terminal prompt (for simple command line stuff without graphics)

These instructions work at the following terminal prompts:

• Mac OS
  • Terminal
• Linux (also any other reasonable Unix-based system)
  • Any terminal/shell
• Windows
  • the “git bash shell” provided by git for Windows
  • shells provided by Cygwin
  • The Microsoft provided bash for Windows (on Windows 10, and we assume, subsequent versions of Windows)

Assuming your CSIL username is cgaucho, use:

ssh cgaucho@csil-07.cs.ucsb.edu

BUT: csil-07 should not be taken literally. Use any of csil-01, csil-02, csil-03, etc. through csil-48.

Other ways to connect (simple command line without graphics)

• PuTTY on Windows. Hostname is csil-01.cs.ucsb.edu (or any of 01 through 48).

Connecting with X11 Graphics

• On MacOS:
  • You need an extra download, XQuartz
  • Then, just use “ssh -Y …” instead of “ssh”
• On Unix/Linux:
  • Just using “ssh -Y … “ instead of “ssh” should work.
• On Windows:
  • Easiest known free solution: MobaXTerm (usually just “works”)
  • Another known free solution: PuTTY + XMing (requires a bit of configuration)
  • X11 server built into Cygwin

Useful Unix Commands

• Make a whole directory path at once:

    mkdir -p foo/bar/fum/fiddle
  

• Remote secure copy (via “scp”, a cousin of “ssh”, the “secure shell”) a file from CSIL to current directory on your local machine

  scp yourusername@csil-01.cs.ucsb.edu:/some/directory/on/csil/some_file.cpp .
  

• Scp files with a wildcard, e.g. *.cpp. Note that you have to “escape” the wildcard, so that it gets interpreted on the remote system instead of at the local shell.

  scp yourusername@csil-01.cs.ucsb.edu:/some/directory/on/csil/\*.cpp .
  

• Scp entire directory. Note that you have to “escape” the wildcard, so that it gets interpreted on the remote system instead of at the local shell.

  scp -r yourusername@csil-01.cs.ucsb.edu:/some/directory/on/csil .
  

Test-Driven Development in C++

Google Test and Google Mock are frameworks that support test-driven development in C++.

https://github.com/UCSB-CMPTGCS-1A-F16/gtest-demo