Check environments, do series of tutorials, work on homework

Plan for today

• This lab will be a guided independent programming session. Please do the following during lab while we are around to help everyone solve their problems.

• When you complete each section, ask a TA to come over so you can discuss what you achieved ### Environment

• Each student has their own cluster environment
• There are two urls, one gives you a linux GUI desktop and the other gives you a vscode programming editor
• All through your browser
• Check out your cluster environments by using your cloud vscode:
  • cluster desktop: http://vnc.yourbrandeisname.ros.campusrover.org
  • cluster VSCode: http://code.yourbrandeisname.ros.campusrover.org
• Use the vscode based shell to create a new directory
• Write a trivial python program in it.
• Show that you can run the python program from the vscode terminal shell
• Now launch your cloud desktop, open a shell there
• Use the nano editor to edit your program, add a <%= link_to_topic :shebang_line %>
• Change the file mode to allow execution
• Execute it from the command line

Basic Concepts

• Do Navigating ROS Filesystem
• Do Creating a Package
• Do Building Packages
• Do Understanding Nodes