C++ STL and Algorithm Libraries using Jupyter Notebooks

Requirements

• Linux/MacOS/WSL(Windows Subsystem Layer) on Windows
• Miniconda Python package manager
• Jupyter Notebook
• xeus-cling notebook kernel
• git

Install required tools

• Install Miniconda: https://conda.io/miniconda.html
• create a virual environment to keep C++ specific installtions seperate from base installation
• open a terminal and run the following commands

    conda create -n cpp python=3.7 # create virtual env named cpp with Python3.7 support
    conda activate cpp #activate the virual environemnt; must do this everytime to run the notebook
    conda install notebook
    conda install -c conda-forge xeus-cling
    conda install -c conda-forge jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
    conda install -c conda-forge jupyter_nbextensions_configurator
    jupyter nbextensions_configurator enable --user

Run notebooks

• open a terminal and cd into this cloned repo and run jupyter notebook

    conda activate cpp
    cd <cs2notebooks repo folder>
    jupyter notebook

Stop notebooks

• On the terminal the jupyter notebook is running do the following:
• Enter ctrl+c to stop jupyter notebook from the terminal where its running from
• Enter conda deactivate # to deactivate the virtual env and go back to base installation

    ctrl+c # to stop server
    conda deactivate # to get out of virtual environment cpp