Computer Labs 2017/2018 - 1st Semester
Lab 0: LCOM's Development Environment

1. Objectives

The objectives of this lab are four-fold. First, to introduce you to Redmine, a project management tool. Second, to create a project on Redmine for your LCOM group. Third to introduce and to configure the development environment that will be used throughout this course. Finally, to introduce you to SVN, a version control tool, and to some Minix (Unix) commands.

This handout is structured as follows:

• 2- What to do?, which summarizes what you have to do in this lab, and what you should do in order to prepare it.
• 3- Setting up Redmine, which describes the steps required to set up the Redime project for your group.
• 4- Setting up VirtualBox with Minix 3.1.8, which describes the steps to set up a VirtualBox image with the version of Minix3.1.8 that we use in LCOM.
• 5- Using Eclipse's Remote System Explorer Plugin, which describes how to set up Eclipse's RSE plugin and how you can use that plugin to create directories (also known as folders) or files in the VirtualBox image with Minix 3.1.8.
• 6- Working with SVN, which describes how to add the directory and the file you have created in the previous step to the SVN repository, and how to create a working copy of the SVN repository. Along the way, we'll introduce also some useful Minix (Unix) commands

There are also a few appendices that provide information that may be useful:

• App. 1- Setting up LCOM's Development, which summarizes how to set up LCOM's development environment in your own PC
• App. 2- Fixing Redmine's Project Identifier, which describes what to do if you gave the wrong identifier to the Redmine project you have created.
• App. 3- Fixing Redmine's Project Name, which describes what to do if you gave the wrong name to the Redmine project you have created.