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This is the repository where you can download everything we need for the UMass Amherst Engineering Class "From Spark to Ignition: Establishing a Plan for Entrepreneurial Success"

From Spark to Ignition: Establishing a Plan for Entrepreneurial Success🚀

This is the repository where you can download everything we need for the UMass Amherst Engineering Class "From Spark to Ignition, Establishing a Plan for Entrepreneurial Success"
It also has a bunch of things I have found useful in my educational journey.

List of things you will find here so far:

• Power Point Presentations for some of the classes (still working on some of them)
• Example mind map as an image and "mind map" format for use with Docear, although outdated, still the best mind map software out there: https://docear.org/
• Template one page Business Plan
• Example filled out business plan
• Instructions on how to run a ipython notebook (sparkignite.ipynb)

Instructions on how to set up a good developer environment

(you may or may not be using this in this class, it is just very useful to have handy - it is basically a really powerful calculator)

Setting things up

Install Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads
Install git: https://git-scm.com/download/win

In GitHub.com, click on the green "<> Code" button and choose "Download Zip"

• Then open VS Code and go File👉Preferences👉Profiles👉Import Profile
• In the upper center of the screen, a dropdown select menu will appear.
• Choose "Select File".
• Navigate to folder that has all the files from this GitHub repository and choose the file: for_spark.code-profile
• On the left-hand sidebar, click: "Create Profile"

Once you have installed VS Code and git...

• Press Ctrl+Shift+` or Cmd+Shift+`. The ` button is the one to the left of the 1 key This will open a terminal window

• Then copy and paste into the terminal
  ./micromamba.exe shell hook -s powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
  This will activate Micro Mamba, a self-contained python environment

• Then run:
  micromamba create -f environment.yml
  This will install most of the necessary libraries.

• Then run
  micromamba activate sparkignite
  This will activate the newly created development environment

• There are a few libraries that can't be installed using the micromamba command, for these, you need to use pip, the "Python Package Index"
  There is a file called pip.sh. Open that and copy its contents and past it into the terminal. Once it is done, you should be all set!

• Now you need to make some changes to the VS Code settings.json file in the .vscode folder so that the application knows where to find python.

You should be good to go, although you may need to restart VS Code to have everything be up to date. Let me know if you have trouble