CS202-001: Infrastructure fallback

You should be on this page if and only if your computer doesn’t run Docker, or you don’t have a computer. If that does not describe you, please return to the normal setup instructions.

Fallback: CIMS machines and cloud server

We will focus here on the library setup. You will need to login and use SSH. If you need a pointer, please ask the course staff.

We assume that you are logging into a physical machine in one of the computing centers. We separate the description into a one-time setup and then what you do each time after.

One-time setup

• Follow the instructions to set up GitHub. You’re setting up the SSH keys on an NYU file share.

• Email the course staff (at the course staff email alias, available on the course home page) your public key (id_rsa.pub), since you will use SSH to authenticate to our cloud server. The course staff will respond with a server name. You will then do:

    $ ssh -AX <cs202_server_name>

• From within the cloud server, follow the steps above:

  • Configure Git
  • Clone the labs repository, including adding a remote called upstream

Ongoing

From the physical machine:

$ ssh -AX <cs202_server_name>
$ cd cs202
$ ./cs202-run-docker

If you have a computer but it just isn’t running Docker

Follow the steps above, as if your home computer is like the library machine: generate a local public key, email it to the course staff, and then ssh to the CS202 server.