6.178 Setup

Welcome to 6.178!

Please read/complete EVERYTHING carefully in order to properly be registered for the course.

Table of Contents

• Announcements
• Actual Setup

Announcements

1. we have office hours every TR 11am-4pm in room 34-303
   • first one is tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan 8
   • you should come to OH if you need help with
     • setting up and/or learning Eclipse, Git, SSH, or Java
     • learning lecture 1 materials
     • completing lecture 1 practice problems
     • literally anything else
2. lecture 1 notes are available at https://github.com/jchoi5me/lec01
   • future lectures will be available via MIT GitHub
   • you will have access to MIT GitHub after you submit the form below and the staff adds you
   • email [email protected] if you submitted the form but have not been added by noon of Tuesday, Jan 8
   • practice problems are not mandatory, but see the note below
3. not sure if you are prepared for 6.178?
   • if you can complete most of the practice problems from lecture 1 WITH staff help from Piazza and office hour, you are ready

Actual Setup

1. if you are a cross registrant
   • contact the registrar to receive an MIT email address, otherwise known as a kerberos
   • you will not be able to join Piazza or the MIT GitHub without a kerberos
   • when you do receive one, fill out the form below and email [email protected]
2. check that you are actually registered for 6.178
   • try checking anywhere on MIT WebSIS as well as other places
   • if you cannot find any information, please email the registrar at [email protected] to find out more
3. join our course piazza page
   • joining is MANDATORY and is not optional
   • if it is a semi-personal issue, please make posts private and include only the instructors
   • if it is a personal issue, email [email protected]
   • for practically everything else, please make posts public
4. create an MIT GitHub Enterprise account at MIT GitHub
   • use your kerberos as your username, if you have one
5. complete the following sections of 6.031 tools
   • 1, 2, 5, 6.2
   • 1. Who are you? of section 6.1
   • 7, without doing any of the GitStream exercises
6. install Eclipse by doing the following:
   1. download the Eclipse installer
   2. launch the installer
   3. select Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, as shown in the below image
   4. follow through using good judgement, or by asking questions on Piazza
7. IMPORTANT: fill out the student information form