FIT3094: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and Virtual Environments

Unix Information.

This unit requires you to have some basic Unix/Linux skills before you begin. Unix is an operating system that works differently to Windows. Linux and Mac OS X are based on the Unix operating system. All of your assignment work must run under the Unix/Linux (or Mac OS X) operating system so it is important that you know how to work in this environment.

Things you will need to know:

• Logging in, logging out
• Moving around and viewing the directory structure
• Creating and removing directories
• Creating, copying and removing files
• Editing files using a text editor such as vi, vim, emacs (Although you may not need to use these particular editors to do your programming you will need them at times all the same!)
• Compiling C++ code from the command line using the GNU compiler
• Debugging code using the GDB debugger
• You may also need to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol software) to up-/down-load your files

There are many online tutorials that will lead you through the basics of UNIX. Here is one you should try:

• UNIX tutorial for beginners - At a bare minimum work through the Introduction and Tutorials 1 - 6 of this guide. Have a look at 7 and 8 if you are interested.

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