Multimedia im Netz - Winter Semester 2017/2018
Online Multimedia - Winter Term 2017/2018
Required Toolkit
To do the Break-Out exercises during the tutorials and to complete all assignments, make sure to install these tools as soon as possible.
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Git. On Windows you need to install git from https://git-scm.com/. It's already included on macOS and Linux. On Mac you might want to install the XCode Command Line Tools to make sure you get the latest version.
- After you're all set with git, go straight ahead to this tutorial, if you don't know git.
- Watch this video to get you all up and running with git.
- We recommend generating an SSH key and cloning this repository via SSH.
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XAMP stack. We recommend xampp (for Windows and Linux) and MAMP for macOS:
- using a bundle is the easiest way, but you can set up all components (Apache, PHP, MySQL) individually on your own peril.
- create a file "test.php" and put this in it:
Put the file in the appropriate location that XAMP uses to serve content. On Windows with xampp this is usually
<?php echo "Hello World!"; ?>
C:/xampp/htdocs, on macOS with MAMP its If you see "Hello World!" when you go to - You can install Apache and MySQL as "Service" to make sure they run in the background. We discourage doing this unless you have a good firewall.
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NodeJS (+ npm). https://nodejs.org/en/.
- MacOS: preferably via Homebrew (or MacPorts if you already have that). The package from the NodeJS website also works.
- Linux: the package in the repos are often a bit outdated, so please look for other ways to get the latest stable version
- Windows: the version from the NodeJS website should work.
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Once you have npm running (check via
npm -v), install these packages (you can do all that from the Git-Bash):- Bower
npm install -g bower - Express Generator
npm install -g express-generator - Polymer-CLI
npm install -g polymer-cli - Browser-Sync
npm install -g browser-sync
- Bower
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Text Editor / Web IDE - choose one -
- Atom https://atom.io/
- Sublime https://www.sublimetext.com/
- WebStorm (free for students here: https://www.jetbrains.com/shop/eform/students) -- warning: no PHP support
- VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Please come to the CodeLabs (Wednesdays 18:00 - 20:00) if you have trouble getting any of these tools up and running.
Repository Structure
/assignments
Everything related to the assignments goes here.
Commit your own solutions in the solutions sub-directories. Read the README first to find out how to do this. There won't be official solutions from our side.
/tutorials
all example code of the tutorials, break out material and other documents are here.