BYOD policy (Bring Your Own Device)

We expect students in this course to use their own laptop. This laptop should at the very least support an SSH client, for remote shell access to the VU Linux servers. Ideally, this laptop supports a command line shell, Python 3 and a text editor with syntax highlighting -- either standalone (e.g. Atom or Sublime Text) or as part of a simple IDE (e.g. Spyder). As such, we recommend the Anaconda python distribution regardless of operating system, along with PuTTy or PowerShell for Windows users specifically.

If you are considering purchasing new hardware, we recommend the following:

Processor: Intel i5 / AMD Ryzen 5 or above
Memory: At least 4GB RAM
Storage: At least 512GB harddisk space
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04 or newer