Phase I: Development Tools¶
Introduction¶
The purpose of the workshop¶
A workshop/tutorial for software developers who want to explore and learn about some of the tools required to set up a productive development environment and then utilise it effectively.
The workshop will walk partcipants thorugh some of the basic development tools and how to use them and then conclude with manually setting up a basic stack using these tools.
Phase I: Development Tools will help put you in a position to set up a development environment and then interact with that environment effectively to create your projects.
What’s covered¶
Virtual Machines will help you set up a fresh development machine on which you can build the environment that you need for your project.
Command Line Interface will give you the tools you need to interact with your development machine and environment directly or remotely, with or without a GUI.
Software Package Managers will introduce you to the tools that will help you manage and set up the software in your development environment.
Editors and IDEs will give you the ability to create and edit files in your development environment.
Basic Stack Configuration Ecercise - this final section will bring all the tools encountered earlier to help us set up a stack for serving up a blank Django application.