Computing

We will provide preconfigured laptops for the exercise classes. If you prefere to use your own system, you are free to do so. However, the support we can provide in case of problems during the school will be limited.

VirtualBox Appliance

Below we provide a VirtualBox image, containing all software needed during the school. This is especially useful for some of the later lectures and as a fall back option. We will not be able to provide a lot of help for setup problems during the school, so a tested setup like this might be useful.

To run the image, you will need to install the VirtualBox hypervisor. There is a version for Linux, Macintosh, Solaris and Windows.

After installing VirtualBox you can download the Python-school appliance. (5.7 GB file!)

In VirtualBox there is a wizard to import existing appliances:
File -> Import Appliance.

Depending on your host computer you probably want to change some settings like RAM, number of cores, etc. Do this before you start the VM.

Once the VM is running, you can login with user student and password student. User student has sudo-rights so you might install new packages if necessary. In addititon, you might want to change the keyboard-layout. For Swiss/US you can use the flag-icon at the bottom right of the screen, otherwise use the System Settings.

Please note that this image is intended for the school only. We did not test it extensively and cannot guarantee that it will work reliable for productive work. Use it at your own risk!