Tool and Exercise Session Instructions

On these pages, you find some instructions for the Aalto University course “CS-A1140 Data Structures and Algorithms”.

In the following, we provide instructions for how to install and use either of the development environments Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA. Pick whichever you are comfortable with and that works for you. (You can use some other IDE or editor of course, but then be aware that course staff will not be able to help you with technical issues related to your development environment.)

Contents:

• Using the Visual Studio Code editor
  • Installing Code on your own computer
  • Setup
  • Workflow
  • Opening an sbt console from Code
  • Trouble-shooting
• Using the IntelliJ IDEA
  • Installing IntelliJ on your own computer
  • Installing the Scala language plugin
  • Working with the exercises
  • Trouble-shooting
• Using VS Code on Aalto Workstations
  • Accessing the VDI
  • Starting IntelliJ
  • Starting VS Code
• Getting help with the exercises
  • Exercise sessions
  • Zulip
  • Online exercise sessions using Zoom
• Extra: Using sbt to compile and test the exercises
  • What is a ‘build tool’
  • Installing sbt
  • Using sbt
  • Interpreting output
  • Watching files