Lab 1 - Setup and basic usage

Getting Racket and GitHub setup

Racket

  1. Download and Install Racket
  2. After installation, open Racket and enable the "Beginning Student Language"
  3. Use the interactions window to perform some simple calculations

GitHub

Create an account on GitHub.
  1. Once you have a GitHub account, sent an email to the course staff, from Piazza with the following information
    GitHub Login Email:
    The email address that you used to create your GitHub account
    GitHub Name:
    The name you used in GitHub. This name appears on the top right corner of the browser once you are logged into GitHub.
    Full name:
    Your full name (first and last name) that should match the name you provided to the Northeastern Registrar.
  2. Create a test repository called Assignment0
  3. Check out the empty repository to your local machine
  4. Open Racket and paste the following in the definitions window, replace your name and email accordingly:
     
    ;; CS2500 
    ;; Assignment 0 
    ;; Therapon Skoteiniotis (t@t.com)
            
  5. Save the contents of the definitions window inside the local repository with the name
    assignment0.rkt
  6. Commit and push the changes to GitHub.