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TMC Instructions

Prerequisits for the course

To do the exercises for this course, you need to install a few software to your computer.

.NET

You need to have .NET (also called Dotnet) installed. You can install it from here: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download.

Note!
Dotnet 6.0 has met its End of Life, and we will use 8.0 in the fall.

Visual Studio Code

The editor used during this course is Visual Studio Code. You can find the instructions from example here: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#installing-vscode or the direct installation link from here: https://code.visualstudio.com/download

C# and TMC Plugin

Once you have installed the Visual Studio Code, you need to install Test My Code or TMC plugin to it. You can find the instructions from here: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#installing-tmc

You also need the C# plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.csharp

How to do the exercises

Registering to the course

Once you have everything installed, you need to download the exercises to your computer. To do that, you need to have a MOOC.fi account. You can read the instructions from here: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#mooc.fi-create-account. Follow the instructions to login.

Note!
Register with your university (or school) email, if you have one! Also, register with same email to TMC and to Open University, if you want credits!

Centria students

When you have the account, follow the instructions for:

  • Selecting your organization: Centria University of Applied Sciences
  • Selecting your course according to time of attendance, for example Basics of Programming in C# Fall X or Basics of Programming in C# Spring X, where X is the course number.
    • The correct course name can also be found from Itslearning.

Open University and free learning

When you have the account, follow the instructions for:

  • Selecting your organization: Centria University of Applied Sciences
  • Selecting your course: OPEN XX-XX Basics of Programming in C# where XX-XX is the current academic year

Doing the exercises

You can find the exercises for each part at the end of each chapter. In some chapters, there might be no exercises.

You can follow these instructions (to a point) on how to submit exercises: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#first-programming-exercise

Note!
At this point, you might encounter a bug, and the exercises do not show up.

In this case, you have to choose again the Extensions menu, select the TMC extension, and enable it.

After enabling, VSCode will ask if you trust the extension and the files, say YES to both questions.

Running the exercises

Note!
The part of "Running the source code" does not unfortunately work yet.

We have to run our exercises manually, if we want to do so.

Short way

In Visual Studio Code,

  • Click on the file Program.cs with right mouse button, and choose Open in integrated terminal.
  • Run the program by writing the command dotnet run in to the newly opened terminal, and press Enter.

Dotnet run

The longer way

In Visual Studio Code, select Terminal and then New Terminal

Terminal menu

A selection of options will pop up. The selections contain all the open exercises. In the example, I am doing part 6, so I have those open.

Folder selection

  • Select the exercise you are doing

  • A new terminal opens at the bottom of Visual Studio Code.

  • write the command cd src/Exercise000 , but instead of the zeros, use the actual exercise number. Press Enter.

Selecting source folder

  • In the example, I am doing exercise 003 of the part, so my command is cd src/Exercise003
  • Now you are in the actual exercise folder, and can run the program.
  • Run the program with the command dotnet run.

Dotnet run

  • If your program works as it should, you can see the output in the console. The next example is from Part 6, exercise 003:

Dotnet run

Note!
The dollar sign in the pictures is NOT part of the command!

Testing your exercises

Follow the instructions here: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#test-source-code

Submitting your exercises

Follow the instructions here: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#submit-solution

Checking your points

Follow the instructions here: https://www.mooc.fi/en/installation/vscode/#check-your-points

Errors in the material?

Did you find an error? A typo perhaps? Please make a pull request at GitHub and help us make the material better!