STUDENT MACHINE

Project forked from: https://github.com/marcin-filipiak/cpp_studentmachine
I wanted to make this fork to see how well pairing it up with NixOS would work.

This fork's NixOS VM Features

• graphical environment
• C and C++ compiler
• Python interpreter
• Vscodium (Open Source binaries for vs code)
• build tools (make, cmake, ninja, meson)
• firefox

Todo

• add support for LAMP stack like on the original
• take a look at template and excercise scripts to see if they need updating
• update the manual
• actually upload the vm image and replace the link

The "STUDENT MACHINE" program is a tool written in C++ that provides a simple interface for users to manage a programming project on GitHub. Student need to work own github account and repository "student_projects".

Here's an overview of the program's functionality from the user's perspective:

To run the program, follow these steps:

• Open a terminal.
• Navigate to the directory where the studentmachine executable is located.
• Run the program by typing the following command and providing a parameter:

studentmachine [command]

Replace [command] with one of the command.

For example, to install the required tools, you would run:

studentmachine install

Installation and System Setup

Command: install

Functionality: Installs necessary software packages and updates the application to the latest version.

Version Checking and Updating

Command: update

Functionality: Checks and updates the application to the latest version from a specified GitHub repository.

System Initialization and Configuration

Command: systemup

Functionality:

• Clears existing student projects and system history.
• Optionally registers GitHub credentials (login and email).
• Downloads and registers SSH keys from a specified keyring.
• Configures Git with the provided GitHub login and email.
• Clones the GitHub repository for student projects.

Saving Work to Repository

Command: savework

Functionality:

• Loads GitHub login and email from configuration files.
• Commits changes to the local Git repository in student_projects.
• Pushes changes to the GitHub repository.

Template Download and Configuration

Command: templates

Functionality: Downloads project templates, runs a script to configure the workspace according to the template, and creates symbolic links.

Exercise Download and Configuration

Command: exercise [exercise_name]

Functionality: Downloads a specific exercise, extracts it, runs a script to configure the exercise, and cleans up after the configuration.

System Shutdown

Command: systemdown

Functionality:

• Loads GitHub login and email from configuration files.
• Commits changes to the local Git repository in student_projects.
• Optionally pushes changes to the GitHub repository.
• Cleans up SSH keys.
• Shuts down the machine.ation files.
• Commits changes to the local Git repository in student_projects.
• Pushes changes to the GitHub repository.

LINKS

Vitrual Machines:
Virtual Machine for VirtualBox 7.0, NixOS with integrated StudentMachine
Same machine but with everything already installed

Official keyring server for StudentMachine where you can find your public key (need to import in Github) http://api.noweenergie.org/application/StudentMachine/keyring/