Tools You Need

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Tools You Need#

Motivation#

There has been a lot of development in computational tools for science and engineering. Yet, many of these tools have not been introduced in a typical electric power engineering curriculum. It remains a challenge for individual researchers to figure out how to install, configure, and efficiently use these tools for research.

Most power engineering researchers are familiar with the Microsoft Windows operating system and the MATLAB software. However, many of the advanced cyberinfrastructure tools are developed on Linux and thus compile more easily and run more efficiently in Linux. On the other hand, compiling and configuring some tools to properly run on Windows may take significantly more efforts. Having a basic understanding of Linux and the command line interface is important for research productivity.

This module aims to provide an introduction to several tools on Linux. These include

  • Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

  • Shell

  • Anaconda/Mambaforge

  • VS Code

  • Jupyter Notebook

  • git

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