How to prepare your PC for the hands-on session

Choose your method

• Method 1: Easy to get started. Editing might be slightly cumbersome.
• Method 2: Need extra time to get started. Editing should be more comfortable.

Method 1: Google Colab (Browser) Only

What you need to have

• Google Account

Method 2: VSCode + Google Colab

VSCode + Google Colab

• This method will use a virtual machine of Google Colab.
• We will then use VSCode to talk to Google Colab.
• See https://developers.googleblog.com/google-colab-is-coming-to-vs-code/

What you need to have

• Google Account
• VSCode installed on your PC

Install Colab Extension in VSCode

See https://developers.googleblog.com/google-colab-is-coming-to-vs-code/

• Click Extension Icon on the Activity Bar of VSCode
• Type Colab in the search box
• Select Colab extension by Google Install
  • Avoid similar extensions by other vendors.
• Type Ctrl+, to open the Settings
  • Or, click Wheel Icon on the Activity Bar Settings
• Type Colab in the search box
• Check all boxes for the experimental features of Colab Extension
  • Colab: Activity Bar
  • Colab: Server Mounting
  • Colab: Terminal
  • Colab: Uploading

Connect to Google Colab

• Download welcome.ipynb to your PC
• Open the notebook using VSCode
• Follow the instruction in the notebook

When you lost a connection to Colab Server

• Close VSCode and restart it
• Open the Welcome notebook and repeat the connection steps
• Repeat the step 2 of Set up geniie-lab