Precourse preparations

With this course you will be introduced in generating a course website by using mkdocs and github pages. To get you started you are asked to bring some course material of your own that you can use to start generating your own course website. This course material can be:

  • Exercises (in pdf, commented code or markdown)
  • Presentations (pdf or powerpoint)
  • Other text and images

You will be working on your own computer during the course. Make sure you have an account on github. Before the start of the course please install:

  • git
  • python (>3.5)
  • pip (usually included in a python installation)
  • mkdocs. Instructions here
  • mkdocs-material. Instructions here

python3 and pip3

Depending on the type of installation of python and pip you might have to call them as python3 and pip3 respectively. You can change this behaviour by adding to your .bashrc (or any other file that is sourced at shell start up):

alias python=python3
alias pip=pip3

For the impatient (that already have a git, python and pip installation):

pip install mkdocs
pip install mkdocs-material