Development Environment

To tidy up my work, several folders are created in my Documents folder, including data docs outputs projects. It is just to make a clear file structure.

C/C++

My Ubuntu 16.04 system has installed GCC already. But it is still worthy to check by sudo apt install g++.


#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    cout << "Hello World\nHi Hi\n";
    return 0;
}

Then run,


g++ firstScript.cpp -o firstScript
./firstScript #this is executable

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Click to this link .deb package (64-bit). If it does not install automatically, just run the following command line,


sudo apt install ./code_1.51.1-xxxxxxxx_amd64.deb

To test the installation, just command code. The VSC window should show up.

Install programming language extensions using Ctrl+Shift+X. For example, C#.

.NET framework


wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt-get update; \
  sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \
  sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-5.0
sudo apt-get update; \
  sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \
  sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y aspnetcore-runtime-5.0
dotnet --version

Anaconda and Python

It is convenient to install python via Anaconda. One of the concerns I often have is that, whether or not tensorflow and pytorch can communicate with my Graphic card in the laptop. We also have to install some packages manually.

Steps

Download the Anaconda installer for Linux. Does not matter if it comes with Python 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8.
Bash the .sh script. Usually you downloaded it in your Downloads folder.
```
bash ~/Downloads/Anacondaxxxxxx.sh
    
```
And type yes and click enter for everything to go.

Sometimes you have python2.7 and python3.5 preinstalled. You can just use them via python2 or python3. So now you should install your packages by pip or pip3.

Some common packages are,

numpy pandas opencv-python nltk Flask virtualenv tensorflow torch torchvision

Please be cautious about tensorflow and pytorch gpu installation. It requires very specific version of cuda and gpu driver,etc.

Matlab

Download the installer zip folder, and unzip it in an empty folder.


mkdir matlab
unzip matlab_R2021a_glnxa64.zip -d matlab
cd matlab

Run the installer,


sudo ./install

Install matlab-support package,


mkdir -p MATLAB/R2021a # inside matlab folder
sudo apt-get install matlab-support # YES - Rename GCC

Allow permission,


sudo chown meme -R ~/.matlab # sudo chown username -R ~/.matlab

Then you can start the matlab by,