Section outline

  • Class

    This class will tackle three broad topics to help you be more efficient in using a computer especially as a computer scientist:
    • Digital life (mails, calendars, backups, online presence, security)
    • Tools for computer scientists (LaTeX, Git, Zotero, Inkscape, Jupyter notebooks...)
    • Good practices for programming (tests, comments, virtualenv, etc.)

    Exercises


    More exercises (if you have time)

    • Create a repository on Télécom's gitlab (use the sign-in with Shibboleth and use your Télécom's account
    • Install a password manager (e.g. KeepassX)
    • Start doing backups
    • Make sure your disk is encrypted (if not consider doing it someday)
    • Write yourself a résumé using LaTeX (see https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/tagged/cv for templates
    • Create yourself a personal webpage