[Transferable Skills Workshops] - Labs Prerequisites

Introduction

Welcome to the UCL Photonics Society's Transferable Skills Workshop Series! 🎓✨

Our goal is to equip you with valuable skills in software engineering and data processing that:

• Improve the quality of your work.
• Foster collaborations.
• Enable participation in the open-source community.

We’ve partnered with industry experts to bring you lectures and labs showcasing tools and methods used in production-quality systems, ensuring you learn from the best! 💯

To make the most of the workshops, please review the specific prerequisites listed below. We can’t wait to see you during our sessions! 📚

Table of contents

• TSW01: REPRODUCIBLE OPEN SOURCE

Legend

• ✅ Mandatory
• ➡️ Recommended

TSW01-REPRODUCIBLE-OPEN-SOURCE

💻 OS and IDE Checklist

✅ Familiarity with basic terminal commands:

• cd (change directory)
• ls (list files)
• pwd (print working directory)

➡️ Installation of VS Code with the following extensions:

• Python

✅ Windows users: Installation of a Unix-type terminal, such as:

• Git Bash in VS Code.

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🗂️ Git & GitHub Checklist

✅ Installation of Git from the official website.

✅ A registered GitHub account.

✅ Setting up your GitHub account email as your Git commit email, following these instructions.

✅ Basic familiarity with Git, including:

• What Git is used for (watch these short videos).
• The following Git commands:
  • git clone
  • git add
  • git commit -m "<commit message>"
  • git push
  • git pull

➡️ Familiarity with advanced Git concepts:

• Branches
• Pull requests
• Conventional commit message structure.

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🐍 Python Checklist

✅ Installation of Python (version ≥3.10).

✅ Basic familiarity with Python programming, especially:

• Functions.
• Classes.

➡️ Knowledge of documenting Python code with docstrings.

➡️ Read Poetry's documentation Introduction and the part on Managing dependencies to get a head start.