1-open-project-in-pycharm.md

Step 1: Open the project in PyCharm

We will in this part download the code from the course repository, and open the project in PyCharm.

0. Make sure that we have python3 installed

Install the required packages.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3 python3-dev python3-distutils python3-venv python-is-python3

1. Clone the code

Open a new terminal by typing Ctrl+Alt+T.

We can clone the lab under this directory by typing the following in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/tek5030/lab-intro

You should now find the code and this lab guide in ~/lab-intro. The C++ version is in the subfolder called cpp, and the Python version in the subfolder called py.

2. Open PyCharm

We will use PyCharm as IDE in the labs. As a student, you can get it for free from https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm.

Open PyCharm by pressing ⊞ Win and type pycharm. Press Enter.

3. Choose "Open project"

4. Find and open the lab project

Open the py folder in the lab directory.

Choose Open as Project, and Trust Project if a dialog appears.

PyCharm should discover our requirements.txt and offer to create a virtual environment based on our /usr/bin/python3.10 interpreter. Press OK.

5. Install requirements

PyCharm throws an error about a missing pyproject.toml or setup.py.

Just ignore the error by pressing OK.

Open the file main.py and you should se a banner on top, "⚠️Package requirements (...)".

Click Install requirements.

6. We are ready to do some programming!

We are now ready to continue to the next step.