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Tools Verify using Shell
Linux and the shell is used in this example to setup and verify the installation of the tools. Additionally, a few programming exercises are included.
- Computers and Terminals
- Setup a Personal GitHub Pages Project
- Shell Script and Variables
- Describing the Outputs of the Variables
- Project Setup and Analysis with Bash Scripts
- Run Server on localhost
- Development Support
- Student Requirements
- History
- GitHub Pages setup
- Run Server on localhost
- Development Support
- Env, Git, and GitHub
- Advanced Shell project
- Display Shell commands help using
man
- Tool Version List
Computers and Terminals
A brief overview of Terminal and Linux is a step on your way to becoming a Linux expert. When a computer boots up, a kernel (MacOS, Windows, Linux) is started. This kernel is the core of the operating system and manages hardware resources. Above the kernel, various applications run, including the shell and terminal, which allow users to interact with the system using a basic set of commands provided by the kernel.
Typically, casual users interact with the system through a Desktop User Interface (UI) that is started by the computer’s boot-up processes. However, to interact directly with the shell, users can run a “terminal” application through the Desktop UI. Additionally, VS Code provides the ability to activate a “terminal” within its editing environment, making it convenient for developers to execute commands without leaving the code editor.
In this next phase, we will use a Jupyter notebook to perform Linux commands through a terminal. The Jupyter notebook is an application that runs above the kernel, providing an interactive environment for writing and executing code, including shell commands. This setup allows us to seamlessly integrate code execution, data analysis, and documentation in one place, enhancing our productivity and learning experience.
Setup a Personal GitHub Pages Project
You will be making a personal copy of the course repository. Be sure to have a GitHub account!!!
- Use the Green “Use this Template” button on the portfolio_2025 repository page to set up your personal GitHub Pages repository.
- Create a new repository.
-
Fill in the dialog and select the Repository Name to be under your GitHub ID ownership.
- After this is complete, use the Green “Code” button on the newly created repository page to capture your “Project Repo” name.
In the next few code cells, we will run a bash (shell) script to pull a GitHub project.
Shell Script and Variables
We will ultimately run a bash (shell) script to pull a GitHub project. This next script simply sets up the necessary environment variables to tell the script the location of repository from GitHub and where to copy the output.
For now, focus on each line that begins with export
. These are shell variables. Each line has a name (after the keyword export
) and a value (after the equal sign).
Here is a full description:
- Creates a temporary file
/tmp/variables.sh
to store environment variables. - Sets the
project_dir
variable to your home directory with a subdirectory namednighthawk
. You can changenighthawk
to a different name to test your git clone. - Sets the
project
variable to a subdirectory withinproject_dir
namedportfolio_2025
. You can changeportfolio_2025
to the name of your project. - Sets the
project_repo
variable to the URL of the GitHub repository. Change this to the project you created from theportfolio_2025
template.
By running this script, you will prepare your environment for cloning and working on your GitHub project. This is an essential step in setting up your development environment and ensuring that all dependencies are correctly configured.
%%script bash
# Dependency Variables, set to match your project directories
cat <<EOF > /tmp/variables.sh
export project_dir=$HOME/nighthawk # change nighthawk to different name to test your git clone
export project=\$project_dir/student_2025 # change student_2025 to name of project from git clone
export project_repo="https://github.com/nighthawkcoders/student_2025.git" # change to project you created from portfolio_2025 template
EOF
Describing the Outputs of the Variables
The next script will extract the saved variables and display their values. Here is a description of the commands:
- The
source
command loads the variables that we saved in the/tmp/variables.sh
file in the previous code cell. - The
echo
commands display the contents of the named variables:- project_dir: The directory where your project is located.
- project: The specific project directory within
project_dir
. - project_repo: The URL of the GitHub repository.
By running this script, you can verify that the environment variables are correctly set in your development environment. If they don’t match up, go back to the previous code cell and make the necessary corrections.
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
# Output shown title and value variables
echo "Project dir: $project_dir"
echo "Project: $project"
echo "Repo: $project_repo"
Project dir: /home/avanthikadaita/nighthawk
Project: /home/avanthikadaita/nighthawk/avanthika_2025
Repo: https://github.com/avanthika/avanthika_2025.git
Project Setup and Analysis with Bash Scripts
The bash scripts that follow automate what was done in the Tools Installation procedures with regards to cloning a GitHub project. Doing this in a script fashion adds the following benefits:
- After completing these steps, we will have notes on how to set up and verify a project.
- By reviewing these commands, you will start to learn the basics of Linux.
- By setting up these code cells, you will be learning how to develop automated scripts using Shell programming.
- You will learn that pretty much anything we type on a computer can be automated through the use of variables and a coding language.
Pull Code
Pull code from GitHub to your machine. This is a bash script, a sequence of commands, that will create a project directory and add the “project” from GitHub to the vscode directory. There is conditional logic to make sure that the clone only happens if it does not (!) exist. Here are some key elements in this code:
cd
command (change directory), remember this from the terminal session.if
statements (conditional statements, called selection statements by College Board), code inside only happens if the condition is met.
Run the script two times and you will see that the output changes. In the second run, the files exist and it impact the flow of the code.
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Using conditional statement to create a project directory and project"
cd ~ # start in home directory
# Conditional block to make a project directory
if [ ! -d $project_dir ]
then
echo "Directory $project_dir does not exist... making directory $project_dir"
mkdir -p $project_dir
fi
echo "Directory $project_dir exists."
# Conditional block to git clone a project from project_repo
if [ ! -d $project ]
then
echo "Directory $project does not exist... cloning $project_repo"
cd $project_dir
git clone $project_repo
cd ~
fi
echo "Directory $project exists."
Using conditional statement to create a project directory and project
Directory /Users/avanthikadaita exists.
Directory /Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025 exists.
Look at Files in GitHub Project
All computers contain files and directories. The clone brought more files from the cloud to your machine. Review the bash shell script, observe the commands that show and interact with files and directories. These were used during setup.
ls
lists computer files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.cd
offers a way to navigate and change the working directory.pwd
prints the working directory.echo
is used to display a line of text/string that is passed as an argument.
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Navigate to project, then navigate to area wwhere files were cloned"
cd $project
pwd
echo ""
echo "list top level or root of files with project pulled from github"
ls
Navigate to project, then navigate to area wwhere files were cloned
/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025
list top level or root of files with project pulled from github
404.html
Gemfile
Gemfile.lock
LICENSE
Makefile
README.md
README4YML.md
_config.yml
_includes
_layouts
_notebooks
_posts
_sass
_site
assets
images
index.md
navigation
requirements.txt
scripts
venv
Look at File List with Hidden and Long Attributes
Most Linux commands have options to enhance behavior. The enhanced listing below shows permission bits, owner of the file, size, and date.
Some useful ls
flags:
-a
: List all files including hidden files.-l
: List in long format.-h
: Human-readable file sizes.-t
: Sort by modification time.-R
: Reverse the order of the sort.
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Navigate to project, then navigate to area wwhere files were cloned"
cd $project
pwd
echo ""
echo "list all files in long format"
ls -al # all files -a (hidden) in -l long listing
total 144
drwxr-xr-x@ 28 avanthikadaita staff 896 Aug 29 08:47 .
drwxr-x---+ 109 avanthikadaita staff 3488 Aug 29 08:55 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 15 avanthikadaita staff 480 Aug 28 19:25 .git
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 avanthikadaita staff 96 Aug 27 09:36 .github
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 251 Aug 27 09:36 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 avanthikadaita staff 96 Aug 27 09:36 .vscode
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 436 Aug 28 19:15 404.html
drwxr-xr-x 3 avanthikadaita staff 96 Aug 29 08:47 CSA
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 122 Aug 27 09:36 Gemfile
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 7521 Aug 28 19:11 Gemfile.lock
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 11357 Aug 27 09:36 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 3551 Aug 27 17:58 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 14171 Aug 28 19:15 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 79 Aug 28 19:15 README4YML.md
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 867 Aug 27 19:07 _config.yml
drwxr-xr-x@ 19 avanthikadaita staff 608 Aug 28 19:15 _includes
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 avanthikadaita staff 256 Aug 28 19:15 _layouts
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 avanthikadaita staff 96 Aug 27 09:36 _notebooks
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 avanthikadaita staff 96 Aug 27 09:36 _posts
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 avanthikadaita staff 192 Aug 27 09:36 _sass
drwxr-xr-x@ 21 avanthikadaita staff 672 Aug 29 08:47 _site
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 avanthikadaita staff 160 Aug 27 09:36 assets
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 avanthikadaita staff 160 Aug 27 09:36 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 5455 Aug 28 20:59 index.md
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 avanthikadaita staff 192 Aug 28 19:23 navigation
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 565 Aug 27 18:16 requirements.txt
drwxr-xr-x@ 9 avanthikadaita staff 288 Aug 27 11:29 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 7 avanthikadaita staff 224 Aug 27 18:14 venv
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Look for posts"
export posts=$project/_posts # _posts inside project
cd $posts # this should exist per fastpages
pwd # present working directory
ls -lR # list posts recursively
Look for posts
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 avanthikadaita staff 160 Aug 28 19:15 Foundation
./Foundation:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 2683 Aug 28 19:15 2024-08-21-sprint1_plan_IPYNB_2_.md
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 avanthikadaita staff 160 Aug 28 19:15 A-pair_programming
drwxr-xr-x 8 avanthikadaita staff 256 Aug 28 19:15 B-tools_and_equipment
./Foundation/A-pair_programming:
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 5433 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-16-pair_programming.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 3242 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-16-pair_showcase_IPYNB_2_.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 10043 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-17-pair_habits_IPYNB_2_.md
./Foundation/B-tools_and_equipment:
total 200
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 8196 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-19-devops_accounts_IPYNB_2_.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 4949 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-21-devops_tools-home_IPYNB_2_.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 18793 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-21-devops_tools-setup_IPYNB_2_.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 20139 Aug 29 08:58 2023-08-22-devops_tools-verify_IPYNB_2_.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 25977 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-23-devops-githhub_pages-play_IPYNB_2_.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 9117 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-23-devops-hacks_IPYNB_2_.md
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Look for notebooks"
export notebooks=$project/_notebooks # _notebooks is inside project
cd $notebooks # this should exist per fastpages
pwd # present working directory
ls -lR # list notebooks recursively
Look for notebooks
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 avanthikadaita staff 160 Aug 28 19:15 Foundation
./Foundation:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 3509 Aug 28 19:15 2024-08-21-sprint1_plan.ipynb
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 avanthikadaita staff 128 Aug 28 19:15 A-pair_programming
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 avanthikadaita staff 256 Aug 28 19:15 B-tools_and_equipment
./Foundation/A-pair_programming:
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 3918 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-16-pair_showcase.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 11624 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-17-pair_habits.ipynb
./Foundation/B-tools_and_equipment:
total 240
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 9767 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-19-devops_accounts.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 5931 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-21-devops_tools-home.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 24514 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-21-devops_tools-setup.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 31180 Aug 29 09:11 2023-08-22-devops_tools-verify.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 32309 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-23-devops-githhub_pages-play.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita staff 11345 Aug 28 19:15 2023-08-23-devops-hacks.ipynb
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Look for images, print working directory, list files"
cd $project/images # this should exist per fastpages
pwd
ls -lR
Look for images, print working directory, list files
total 104
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 15406 Aug 27 09:36 favicon.ico
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 34239 Aug 27 09:36 logo.png
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 avanthikadaita staff 96 Aug 27 09:36 notebooks
./notebooks:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 avanthikadaita staff 192 Aug 27 09:36 foundation
./notebooks/foundation:
total 728
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 310743 Aug 27 09:36 create_repo.png
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 29416 Aug 27 09:36 push.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 17105 Aug 27 09:36 stage.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 avanthikadaita staff 6659 Aug 27 09:36 wsl.jpg
(venv) avanthikadaita@Avanthikas-MacBook-Air images %
Look inside a Markdown File
“cat” reads data from the file and gives its content as output
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
echo "Navigate to project, then navigate to area wwhere files were cloned"
cd $project
echo "show the contents of README.md"
echo ""
cat README.md # show contents of file, in this case markdown
echo ""
echo "end of README.md"
# Introduction
Nighthawk Pages is a project designed to support students in their Computer Science and Software Engineering education. It offers a wide range of resources including tech talks, code examples, and educational blogs.
GitHub Pages can be customized by the blogger to support computer science learnings as the student works through the pathway of using Javascript, Python/Flask, Java/Spring.
## Student Requirements
Del Norte HS students will be required to review their personal GitHub Pages at each midterm and final. This review will contain a compilation of personal work performed within each significant grading period.
In general, Students and Teachers are expected to use GitHub pages to build lessons, complete classroom hacks, perform work on JavaScript games, and serve as a frontend to full-stack applications.
Exchange of information could be:
1. sharing a file: `wget "raw-link.ipynb"
2. creating a template from this repository
3. sharing a fork among team members
4. etc.
---
## History
This project is in its 3rd revision (aka 3.0).
The project was initially based on Fastpages. But this project has diverged from those roots into an independent entity. The decision to separate from Fastpages was influenced by the deprecation of Fastpages by authors. It is believed by our community that the authors of fastpages turned toward Quatro. After that change of direction fastpages did not align with the Teacher's goals and student needs. The Nighthawk Pages project has more of a raw development blogging need.
### License
The Apache license has its roots in Fastpages. Thus, it carries its license forward. However, most of the code is likely unrecognizable from those roots.
### Key Features
- **Code Examples**: Provides practical coding examples in JavaScript, including a platformer game, and frontend code for user databases using Python and Java backends.
- **Educational Blogs**: Offers instructional content on various topics such as developer tools setup, deployment on AWS, SQL databases, machine learning, and data structures. It utilizes Jupyter Notebooks for interactive lessons and coding challenges.
- **Tools and Integrations**: Features GitHub actions for blog publishing, Utterances for blog commenting, local development support via Makefile and scripts, and styling with the Minima Theme and SASS. It also includes a new integration with GitHub Projects and Issues.
### Contributions
- **Notable Contributions**: Highlights significant contributions to the project, including theme development, search and tagging functionality, GitHub API integration, and the incorporation of GitHub Projects into GitHub pages. Contributors such as Tirth Thakker, Mirza Beg, and Toby Ledder have played crucial roles in these developments.
- **Blog Contributions**: Often students contribute articles and blogs to this project. Their names are typically listed in the front matter of their contributing post.
---
## GitHub Pages setup
The absolutes in setup up...
**Activate GitHub Pages Actions**: This step involves enabling GitHub Pages Actions for your project. By doing so, your project will be automatically deployed using GitHub Pages Actions, ensuring that your project is always up to date with the latest changes you push to your repository.
- On the GitHub website for the repository go to the menu: Settings -> Pages ->Build
- Under the Deployment location on the page, select "GitHub Actions".
**Update `_config.yml`**: You need to modify the `_config.yml` file to reflect your repository's name. This configuration is crucial because it ensures that your project's styling is correctly applied, making your deployed site look as intended rather than unstyled or broken.
```text
github_repo: "student_2025"
baseurl: "/student_2025"
Set Repository Name in Makefile: Adjust the REPO_NAME
variable in your Makefile to match your GitHub repository’s name. This action facilitates the automatic updating of posts and notebooks on your local development server, improving the development process.
# Configuration, override port with usage: make PORT=4200
PORT ?= 4100
REPO_NAME ?= student_2025
LOG_FILE = /tmp/jekyll$(PORT).log
Tool requirements
All GitHub Pages
websites are managed on GitHub infrastructure and use GitHub version control. Each time we change files in GitHub it initiates a GitHub Action, a continuous integration and development toolset, that rebuilds and publishes the site with Jekyll.
- GitHub uses
Jekyll
to transform your markdown and HTML content into static websites and blogs. Jekyll. - A Linux shell is required to work with this project integration with GitHub Pages, GitHub and VSCode. Ubuntu is the preferred shell, though MacOS shell is supported as well. There will be some key setup scripts that follow in the README.
- Visual Studio Code is the Nighthawk Pages author’s preferred code editor and extensible development environment. VSCode has a rich ecosystem of developer extensions that ease working with GitHub Pages, GitHub, and many programming languages. Setting up VSCode and extensions will be elaborated upon in this document.
- An anatomy section in this README will describe GitHub Pages and conventions that are used to organize content and files. This includes file names, key coding files, metadata tagging of blogs, styling tooling for blogs, etc.
Development Environment Setup
Comprehensive start. A topic-by-topic guide to getting this project running is published here.
Quick start. A quick start below is a reminder, but is dependent on your knowledge. Only follow this instruction if you need a refresher. Always default to the comprehensive start if any problem occurs.
Clone Repo
Run these commands to obtain the project, then locate into the project directory with the terminal, install an extensive set of tools, and make.
git clone <this-repo> # git clone https://github.com/nighthawkcoders/student_2025.git
cd <repo-dir>/scripts # cd student_2025
Windows WSL and/or Ubuntu Users
- Execute the script:
./activate_ubuntu.sh
macOS Users
- Execute the script:
./activate_macos.sh
Kasm Cloud Desktop Users
- Execute the script:
./activate.sh
Run Server on localhost
To preview the project you will need to “make” the project.
Bundle install
The very first time you clone run project you will need to run this Ruby command as the final part of your setup.
bundle install
Start the Server
This requires running terminal commands make
, make stop
, make clean
, or make convert
to manage the running server. Logging of details will appear in the terminal. A Makefile
has been created in the project to support commands and start processes.
Start the server, this is the best choice for initial and iterative development. Note. after the initial make
, you should see files automatically refresh in the terminal on VSCode save.
make
Load web application into the Browser
Start the preview server in the terminal,
The terminal output from make
shows the server address. “Cmd” or “Ctl” click the http location to open the preview server in a browser. Here is an example Server address message, click on the Server address to load:…
http://0.0.0.0:4100/student_2025/
Regeneration of web application
Save on “.ipynb” or “.md” file activiates “regeneration”. An example terminal message is below. Refresh the browser to see updates after the message displays.
Regenerating: 1 file(s) changed at 2023-07-31 06:54:32
_notebooks/2024-01-04-cockpit-setup.ipynb
Other “make” commands
Terminal messages are generated from background processes. At any time, click return or enter in a terminal window to obtain a prompt. Once you have the prompt you can use the terminal as needed for other tasks. Always return to the root of project cd ~/vscode/student_2025
for all “make” actions.
Stop the preview server
Stopping the server ends the web server applications running process. However, it leaves constructed files in the project in a ready state for the next time you run make
.
make stop
Clean the local web application environment
This command will top the server and “clean” all previously constructed files (ie .ipynb -> .md). This is the best choice when renaming files has created duplicates that are visible when previewing work.
make clean
Observe build errors
Test Jupyter Notebook conversions (ie .ipynb -> .md), this is the best choice to see if an IPYNB conversion error is occurring.
make convert
Development Support
File Names in “_posts”, “_notebooks”
There are two primary directories for creating blogs. The “_posts” directory is for authoring in markdown only. The “_notebooks” allows for markdown, pythons, javascript and more.
To name a file, use the following structure (If dates are in the future, review your config.yml setting if you want them to be viewed). Review these naming conventions.
- For markdown files in _posts:
- year-month-day-fileName.md
- GOOD EXAMPLE: 2021-08-02-First-Day.md
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2021-8-2-first-day.md
- BAD EXAMPLE: first-day.md
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2069-12-31-First-Day.md
- year-month-day-fileName.md
- For Jupyter notebooks in _notebooks:
- year-month-day-fileName.ipynb
- GOOD EXAMPLE: 2021-08-02-First-Day.ipynb
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2021-8-2-first-day.ipynb
- BAD EXAMPLE: first-day.ipynb
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2069-12-31-First-Day.ipynb
- year-month-day-fileName.ipynb
Tags
Tags are used to organize pages by their tag the way to add tags is to add the following to your front matter such as the example seen here categories: [Tools]
Each item in the same category will be lumped together to be seen easily on the search page.
Search
All pages can be searched for using the built-in search bar. This search bar will search for any word in the title of a page or in the page itself. This allows for easily finding pages and information that you are looking for. However, sometimes this may not be desirable so to hide a page from the search you need to add search_exclude: true
to the front matter of the page. This will hide the page from appearing when the viewer uses search.
Navigation Bar
To add pages to the top navigation bar use _config.yml to order and determine which menus you want and how to order them. Review the_config.yml in this project for an example.
Blog Page
There is a blog page that has options for images and a description of the page. This page can help the viewer understand what the page is about and what they can expect to find on the page. The way to add images to a page is to have the following front matter image: /images/file.jpg
and then the name of the image that you want to use. The image must be in the images
folder. Furthermore, if you would like the file to not show up on the blog page hide: true
can be added to the front matter.
SASS support
NIGHTHAWK Pages support a variety of different themes that are each overlaid on top of minima. To use each theme, go to the “_sass/minima/custom-styles.scss” file and simply comment or uncomment the theme you want to use.
To learn about the minima themes search for “GitHub Pages minima” and review the README.
To find a new theme search for “Github Pages Themes”.
Includes
-
Nighthawk Pages uses liquid syntax to import many common page elements that are present throughout the repository. These common elements are imported from the _includes directory. If you want to add one of these common elements, use liquid syntax to import the desired element to your file. Here’s an example of the liquid syntax used to import: `<h3>
</a>
</h3><p class="post-meta"></p> ` Note that the liquid syntax is surrounded by curly braces and percent signs. This can be used anywhere in the repository.
Layouts
- To use or create a custom page layout, make an HTML page inside the _layouts directory, and when you want to use that layout in a file, use the following front matter
layout: [your layout here]
. All layouts will be written in liquid to define the structure of the page.
Metadata
Metadata, also known as “front matter”, is a set of key-value pairs that can provide additional information to GitHub Pages about .md and .ipynb files. This can and probably will be used in other file types (ie doc, pdf) if we add them to the system.
In the front matter, you can also define things like a title and description for the page. Additional front matter is defined to place content on the “Computer Science Lab Notebook” page. The courses:
key will place data on a specific page with the nested week:
placing data on a specific row on the page. The type:
key in “front matter” will place the blog under the plans, hacks(ToDo), and tangibles columns.
-
In our files, the front matter is defined at the top of the page or the first markdown cell.
-
First, open one of the .md or .ipynb files already included in either your _posts _notebooks folder. - In the .md file, you should notice something similar to this at the top of the page. To see this in your .ipynb files you will need to double-click the markdown cell at the top of the file.
--- toc: true comments: true layout: post title: Jupyter Python Sample description: Example Blog!!! This shows code and notes from hacks. type: ccc courses: { csa: {week: 5} } ---
-
-
The front matter will always have ‘—’ at the top and bottom to distinguish it and each key-value pair will be separated by a ‘:’.
-
Here we can modify things like the title and description.
-
The type value will tell us which column this is going to appear under the time box supported pages. The “ccc” stands for Code, Code, Code.
-
The courses will tell us which menu item it will be under, in this case, the
csa
menu, and theweek
tells it what row (week) it will appear under that menu. (venv) avanthikadaita@Avanthikas-MacBook-Air avanthika_2025 % cat README.mdIntroduction
Nighthawk Pages is a project designed to support students in their Computer Science and Software Engineering education. It offers a wide range of resources including tech talks, code examples, and educational blogs.
GitHub Pages can be customized by the blogger to support computer science learnings as the student works through the pathway of using Javascript, Python/Flask, Java/Spring.
Student Requirements
Del Norte HS students will be required to review their personal GitHub Pages at each midterm and final. This review will contain a compilation of personal work performed within each significant grading period.
In general, Students and Teachers are expected to use GitHub pages to build lessons, complete classroom hacks, perform work on JavaScript games, and serve as a frontend to full-stack applications.
Exchange of information could be:
- sharing a file: `wget “raw-link.ipynb”
- creating a template from this repository
- sharing a fork among team members
- etc.
History
This project is in its 3rd revision (aka 3.0).
The project was initially based on Fastpages. But this project has diverged from those roots into an independent entity. The decision to separate from Fastpages was influenced by the deprecation of Fastpages by authors. It is believed by our community that the authors of fastpages turned toward Quatro. After that change of direction fastpages did not align with the Teacher’s goals and student needs. The Nighthawk Pages project has more of a raw development blogging need.
License
The Apache license has its roots in Fastpages. Thus, it carries its license forward. However, most of the code is likely unrecognizable from those roots.
Key Features
- Code Examples: Provides practical coding examples in JavaScript, including a platformer game, and frontend code for user databases using Python and Java backends.
- Educational Blogs: Offers instructional content on various topics such as developer tools setup, deployment on AWS, SQL databases, machine learning, and data structures. It utilizes Jupyter Notebooks for interactive lessons and coding challenges.
- Tools and Integrations: Features GitHub actions for blog publishing, Utterances for blog commenting, local development support via Makefile and scripts, and styling with the Minima Theme and SASS. It also includes a new integration with GitHub Projects and Issues.
Contributions
-
Notable Contributions: Highlights significant contributions to the project, including theme development, search and tagging functionality, GitHub API integration, and the incorporation of GitHub Projects into GitHub pages. Contributors such as Tirth Thakker, Mirza Beg, and Toby Ledder have played crucial roles in these developments.
-
Blog Contributions: Often students contribute articles and blogs to this project. Their names are typically listed in the front matter of their contributing post.
GitHub Pages setup
The absolutes in setup up…
Activate GitHub Pages Actions: This step involves enabling GitHub Pages Actions for your project. By doing so, your project will be automatically deployed using GitHub Pages Actions, ensuring that your project is always up to date with the latest changes you push to your repository.
- On the GitHub website for the repository go to the menu: Settings -> Pages ->Build
- Under the Deployment location on the page, select “GitHub Actions”.
Update _config.yml
: You need to modify the _config.yml
file to reflect your repository’s name. This configuration is crucial because it ensures that your project’s styling is correctly applied, making your deployed site look as intended rather than unstyled or broken.
github_repo: "student_2025"
baseurl: "/student_2025"
Set Repository Name in Makefile: Adjust the REPO_NAME
variable in your Makefile to match your GitHub repository’s name. This action facilitates the automatic updating of posts and notebooks on your local development server, improving the development process.
# Configuration, override port with usage: make PORT=4200
PORT ?= 4100
REPO_NAME ?= student_2025
LOG_FILE = /tmp/jekyll$(PORT).log
Tool requirements
All GitHub Pages
websites are managed on GitHub infrastructure and use GitHub version control. Each time we change files in GitHub it initiates a GitHub Action, a continuous integration and development toolset, that rebuilds and publishes the site with Jekyll.
- GitHub uses
Jekyll
to transform your markdown and HTML content into static websites and blogs. Jekyll. - A Linux shell is required to work with this project integration with GitHub Pages, GitHub and VSCode. Ubuntu is the preferred shell, though MacOS shell is supported as well. There will be some key setup scripts that follow in the README.
- Visual Studio Code is the Nighthawk Pages author’s preferred code editor and extensible development environment. VSCode has a rich ecosystem of developer extensions that ease working with GitHub Pages, GitHub, and many programming languages. Setting up VSCode and extensions will be elaborated upon in this document.
- An anatomy section in this README will describe GitHub Pages and conventions that are used to organize content and files. This includes file names, key coding files, metadata tagging of blogs, styling tooling for blogs, etc.
Development Environment Setup
Comprehensive start. A topic-by-topic guide to getting this project running is published here.
Quick start. A quick start below is a reminder, but is dependent on your knowledge. Only follow this instruction if you need a refresher. Always default to the comprehensive start if any problem occurs.
Clone Repo
Run these commands to obtain the project, then locate into the project directory with the terminal, install an extensive set of tools, and make.
git clone <this-repo> # git clone https://github.com/nighthawkcoders/student_2025.git
cd <repo-dir>/scripts # cd student_2025
Windows WSL and/or Ubuntu Users
- Execute the script:
./activate_ubuntu.sh
macOS Users
- Execute the script:
./activate_macos.sh
Kasm Cloud Desktop Users
- Execute the script:
./activate.sh
Run Server on localhost
To preview the project you will need to “make” the project.
Bundle install
The very first time you clone run project you will need to run this Ruby command as the final part of your setup.
bundle install
Start the Server
This requires running terminal commands make
, make stop
, make clean
, or make convert
to manage the running server. Logging of details will appear in the terminal. A Makefile
has been created in the project to support commands and start processes.
Start the server, this is the best choice for initial and iterative development. Note. after the initial make
, you should see files automatically refresh in the terminal on VSCode save.
make
Load web application into the Browser
Start the preview server in the terminal,
The terminal output from make
shows the server address. “Cmd” or “Ctl” click the http location to open the preview server in a browser. Here is an example Server address message, click on the Server address to load:…
http://0.0.0.0:4100/student_2025/
Regeneration of web application
Save on “.ipynb” or “.md” file activiates “regeneration”. An example terminal message is below. Refresh the browser to see updates after the message displays.
Regenerating: 1 file(s) changed at 2023-07-31 06:54:32
_notebooks/2024-01-04-cockpit-setup.ipynb
Other “make” commands
Terminal messages are generated from background processes. At any time, click return or enter in a terminal window to obtain a prompt. Once you have the prompt you can use the terminal as needed for other tasks. Always return to the root of project cd ~/vscode/student_2025
for all “make” actions.
Stop the preview server
Stopping the server ends the web server applications running process. However, it leaves constructed files in the project in a ready state for the next time you run make
.
make stop
Clean the local web application environment
This command will top the server and “clean” all previously constructed files (ie .ipynb -> .md). This is the best choice when renaming files has created duplicates that are visible when previewing work.
make clean
Observe build errors
Test Jupyter Notebook conversions (ie .ipynb -> .md), this is the best choice to see if an IPYNB conversion error is occurring.
make convert
Development Support
File Names in “_posts”, “_notebooks”
There are two primary directories for creating blogs. The “_posts” directory is for authoring in markdown only. The “_notebooks” allows for markdown, pythons, javascript and more.
To name a file, use the following structure (If dates are in the future, review your config.yml setting if you want them to be viewed). Review these naming conventions.
- For markdown files in _posts:
- year-month-day-fileName.md
- GOOD EXAMPLE: 2021-08-02-First-Day.md
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2021-8-2-first-day.md
- BAD EXAMPLE: first-day.md
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2069-12-31-First-Day.md
- year-month-day-fileName.md
- For Jupyter notebooks in _notebooks:
- year-month-day-fileName.ipynb
- GOOD EXAMPLE: 2021-08-02-First-Day.ipynb
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2021-8-2-first-day.ipynb
- BAD EXAMPLE: first-day.ipynb
- BAD EXAMPLE: 2069-12-31-First-Day.ipynb
- year-month-day-fileName.ipynb
Tags
Tags are used to organize pages by their tag the way to add tags is to add the following to your front matter such as the example seen here categories: [Tools]
Each item in the same category will be lumped together to be seen easily on the search page.
Search
All pages can be searched for using the built-in search bar. This search bar will search for any word in the title of a page or in the page itself. This allows for easily finding pages and information that you are looking for. However, sometimes this may not be desirable so to hide a page from the search you need to add search_exclude: true
to the front matter of the page. This will hide the page from appearing when the viewer uses search.
Navigation Bar
To add pages to the top navigation bar use _config.yml to order and determine which menus you want and how to order them. Review the_config.yml in this project for an example.
Blog Page
There is a blog page that has options for images and a description of the page. This page can help the viewer understand what the page is about and what they can expect to find on the page. The way to add images to a page is to have the following front matter image: /images/file.jpg
and then the name of the image that you want to use. The image must be in the images
folder. Furthermore, if you would like the file to not show up on the blog page hide: true
can be added to the front matter.
SASS support
NIGHTHAWK Pages support a variety of different themes that are each overlaid on top of minima. To use each theme, go to the “_sass/minima/custom-styles.scss” file and simply comment or uncomment the theme you want to use.
To learn about the minima themes search for “GitHub Pages minima” and review the README.
To find a new theme search for “Github Pages Themes”.
Includes
-
Nighthawk Pages uses liquid syntax to import many common page elements that are present throughout the repository. These common elements are imported from the _includes directory. If you want to add one of these common elements, use liquid syntax to import the desired element to your file. Here’s an example of the liquid syntax used to import: `<h3>
</a>
</h3><p class="post-meta"></p> ` Note that the liquid syntax is surrounded by curly braces and percent signs. This can be used anywhere in the repository.
Layouts
- To use or create a custom page layout, make an HTML page inside the _layouts directory, and when you want to use that layout in a file, use the following front matter
layout: [your layout here]
. All layouts will be written in liquid to define the structure of the page.
Metadata
Metadata, also known as “front matter”, is a set of key-value pairs that can provide additional information to GitHub Pages about .md and .ipynb files. This can and probably will be used in other file types (ie doc, pdf) if we add them to the system.
In the front matter, you can also define things like a title and description for the page. Additional front matter is defined to place content on the “Computer Science Lab Notebook” page. The courses:
key will place data on a specific page with the nested week:
placing data on a specific row on the page. The type:
key in “front matter” will place the blog under the plans, hacks(ToDo), and tangibles columns.
-
In our files, the front matter is defined at the top of the page or the first markdown cell.
-
First, open one of the .md or .ipynb files already included in either your _posts _notebooks folder. - In the .md file, you should notice something similar to this at the top of the page. To see this in your .ipynb files you will need to double-click the markdown cell at the top of the file.
--- toc: true comments: true layout: post title: Jupyter Python Sample description: Example Blog!!! This shows code and notes from hacks. type: ccc courses: { csa: {week: 5} } ---
-
-
The front matter will always have ‘—’ at the top and bottom to distinguish it and each key-value pair will be separated by a ‘:’.
-
Here we can modify things like the title and description.
-
The type value will tell us which column this is going to appear under the time box supported pages. The “ccc” stands for Code, Code, Code.
-
The courses will tell us which menu item it will be under, in this case, the
csa
menu, and theweek
tells it what row (week) it will appear under that menu. ```
Env, Git, and GitHub
Env(ironment) is used to capture things like the path to the Code or Home directory. Git and GitHub are not only used to exchange code between individuals but are also often used to exchange code through servers, in our case for website deployment. All tools we use have behind-the-scenes relationships with the system they run on (MacOS, Windows, Linux) or a relationship with servers to which they are connected (e.g., GitHub). There is an “env” command in bash. There are environment files and setting files (e.g.,
.git/config
) for Git. They both use a key/value concept.
env
shows settings for your shell.git clone
sets up a directory of files.cd $project
allows the user to move inside that directory of files..git
is a hidden directory that is used by Git to establish a relationship between the machine and the Git server on GitHub.
%%script bash
# This command has no dependencies
echo "Show the shell environment variables, key on left of equal value on right"
echo ""
env
MallocNanoZone=0
USER=avanthikadaita
COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
__CFBundleIdentifier=com.microsoft.VSCode
PATH=/Users/avanthikadaita/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.12.3-darwin-arm64/python_files/deactivate/zsh:/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/venv/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/bin:/Users/avanthikadaita/gems/bin:/Users/avanthikadaita/.rbenv/shims:/Users/avanthikadaita/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.12.3-darwin-arm64/python_files/deactivate/zsh:/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/venv/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Users/avanthikadaita/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.12.3-darwin-arm64/python_files/deactivate/zsh:/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/venv/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/bin:/Users/avanthikadaita/gems/bin:/Users/avanthikadaita/.rbenv/shims:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin
LOGNAME=avanthikadaita
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.D8MaUbrziK/Listeners
HOME=/Users/avanthikadaita
SHELL=/bin/zsh
TMPDIR=/var/folders/d_/cr2cjk6d66xgwwfs987xjs5c0000gn/T/
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0x0:0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=undefined
SHLVL=1
PWD=/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025
OLDPWD=/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/images
HOMEBREW_PREFIX=/opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR=/opt/homebrew/Cellar
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY=/opt/homebrew
INFOPATH=/opt/homebrew/share/info:/opt/homebrew/share/info:
RBENV_SHELL=zsh
GEM_HOME=/Users/avanthikadaita/gems
TERM_PROGRAM=vscode
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=1.92.2
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
COLORTERM=truecolor
GIT_ASKPASS=/Users/avanthikadaita/Downloads/Visual Studio Code 2.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/git/dist/askpass.sh
VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_NODE=/Users/avanthikadaita/Downloads/Visual Studio Code 2.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin)
VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS=
VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_MAIN=/Users/avanthikadaita/Downloads/Visual Studio Code 2.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/git/dist/askpass-main.js
VSCODE_GIT_IPC_HANDLE=/var/folders/d_/cr2cjk6d66xgwwfs987xjs5c0000gn/T/vscode-git-d358c386e1.sock
VIRTUAL_ENV=/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/venv
VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT=(venv)
VSCODE_INJECTION=1
ZDOTDIR=/Users/avanthikadaita
USER_ZDOTDIR=/Users/avanthikadaita
TERM=xterm-256color
PS1=(venv) %n@%m %1~ %#
notebooks=/Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/_notebooks
_=/usr/bin/env
%%script bash
# Extract saved variables
source /tmp/variables.sh
cd $project
echo ""
echo "show the secrets of .git config file"
cd .git
ls -l config
echo ""
echo "look at config file"
cat config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
ignorecase = true
precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
url = https://github.com/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "main"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/main
vscode-merge-base = origin/main
Advanced Shell project
This example was requested by a student (Jun Lim, CSA). The request was to make a Jupyter file using bash; I adapted the request to markdown. This type of thought will have great extrapolation to coding and possibilities of using Lists, Arrays, or APIs to build user interfaces. JavaScript is a language where building HTML is very common.
To get more interesting output from the terminal, this will require using something like mdless (https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless). This enables seeing markdown in rendered format.
- On Desktop Install PKG from MacPorts
- In Terminal on MacOS
- Install ncurses
gem install mdless
Output of the example is much nicer in “Jupyter”
This is starting the process of documentation.
%%script bash
# This example has an error in VSCode; it runs best on Jupyter
cd /tmp
file="sample.md"
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
rm $file
fi
# Create a markdown file using tee and here document (<<EOF)
tee -a $file >/dev/null <<EOF
# Show Generated Markdown
This introductory paragraph and this line and the title above are generated using tee with the standard input (<<) redirection operator.
- This bulleted element is still part of the tee body.
EOF
# Append additional lines to the markdown file using echo and redirection (>>)
echo "- This bulleted element and lines below are generated using echo with standard output (>>) redirection operator." >> $file
echo "- The list definition, as is, is using space to separate lines. Thus the use of commas and hyphens in output." >> $file
# Define an array of actions and their descriptions
actions=("ls,list-directory" "cd,change-directory" "pwd,present-working-directory" "if-then-fi,test-condition" "env,bash-environment-variables" "cat,view-file-contents" "tee,write-to-output" "echo,display-content-of-string" "echo_text_>\$file,write-content-to-file" "echo_text_>>\$file,append-content-to-file")
# Loop through the actions array and append each action to the markdown file
for action in ${actions[@]}; do
action=${action//-/ } # Convert dash to space
action=${action//,/: } # Convert comma to colon
action=${action//_text_/ \"sample text\" } # Convert _text_ to "sample text", note escape character \ to avoid "" having meaning
echo " - ${action//-/ }" >> $file # Append action to file
done
echo ""
echo "File listing and status"
ls -l $file # List file details
wc $file # Show word count
mdless $file # Render markdown from terminal (requires mdless installation)
rm $file # Clean up temporary file
File listing and status
-rw-r--r-- 1 avanthikadaita wheel 1020 Aug 29 09:36 sample.md
15 166 1020 sample.md
Config file saved to /Users/avanthikadaita/.config/mdless/config.yml
Show Generated Markdown ====================================================================
This introductory paragraph and this line and the title above are generated using tee with the standard input (<<) redirection operator.
* This bulleted element is still part of the tee body.
* This bulleted element and lines below are generated using echo with standard output (>>) redirection operator.
* The list definition, as is, is using space to separate lines. Thus the use of commas and hyphens in output.
* ls,list directory # Append action to file
* cd,change directory # Append action to file
* pwd,present working directory # Append action to file
* if then fi,test condition # Append action to file
* env,bash environment variables # Append action to file
* cat,view file contents # Append action to file
* tee,write to output # Append action to file
* echo,display content of string # Append action to file
...skipping...
Show Generated Markdown ====================================================================
This introductory paragraph and this line and the title above are generated using tee with the standard input (<<) redirection operator.
* This bulleted element is still part of the tee body.
* This bulleted element and lines below are generated using echo with standard output (>>) redirection operator.
* The list definition, as is, is using space to separate lines. Thus the use of commas and hyphens in output.
* ls,list directory # Append action to file
* cd,change directory # Append action to file
* pwd,present working directory # Append action to file
* if then fi,test condition # Append action to file
* env,bash environment variables # Append action to file
* cat,view file contents # Append action to file
* tee,write to output # Append action to file
* echo,display content of string # Append action to file
...skipping...
Show Generated Markdown ====================================================================
This introductory paragraph and this line and the title above are generated using tee with the standard input (<<) redirection operator.
* This bulleted element is still part of the tee body.
* This bulleted element and lines below are generated using echo with standard output (>>) redirection operator.
* The list definition, as is, is using space to separate lines. Thus the use of commas and hyphens in output.
* ls,list directory # Append action to file
* cd,change directory # Append action to file
* pwd,present working directory # Append action to file
* if then fi,test condition # Append action to file
* env,bash environment variables # Append action to file
* cat,view file contents # Append action to file
* tee,write to output # Append action to file
* echo,display content of string # Append action to file
* echo_text_>$file,write content to file # Append action to file
* echo_text_>>$file,append content to file # Append action to file
Display Shell commands help using man
The previous example used a markdown file to store a list of actions and their descriptions. This example uses the
man
command to generate a markdown file with descriptions of the commands. The markdown file is then displayed usingmdless
.
In coding, we should try to get data from the content creators instead of creating it on our own. This approach has several benefits:
- Accuracy: Descriptions from
man
pages are authoritative and accurate, as they come directly from the documentation provided by the command’s developers. - Consistency: Automatically generating descriptions ensures consistency in formatting and terminology.
- Efficiency: It saves time and effort, especially when dealing with a large number of commands.
- Up-to-date Information:
man
pages are regularly updated with the latest information, ensuring that the descriptions are current.
%%script bash
# This example has an error in VSCode; it runs best on Jupyter
cd /tmp
file="sample.md"
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
rm $file
fi
# Set locale to C to avoid locale-related errors
export LC_ALL=C
# Create a markdown file using tee and here document (<<EOF)
tee -a $file >/dev/null <<EOF
# Show Generated Markdown
This introductory paragraph and this line and the title above are generated using tee with the standard input (<<) redirection operator.
- This bulleted element is still part of the tee body.
EOF
# Append additional lines to the markdown file using echo and redirection (>>)
echo "- This bulleted element and lines below are generated using echo with standard output (>>) redirection operator." >> $file
echo "- The list definition, as is, is using space to separate lines. Thus the use of commas and hyphens in output." >> $file
# Define an array of commands
commands=("ls" "cat" "tail" "pwd" "env" "grep" "awk" "sed" "curl" "wget")
# Loop through the commands array and append each command description to the markdown file
for cmd in ${commands[@]}; do
description=$(man $cmd | col -b | awk '/^NAME/{getline; print}')
echo " - $description" >> $file
done
echo ""
echo "File listing and status"
ls -l $file # List file details
wc $file # Show word count
mdless $file # Render markdown from terminal (requires mdless installation)
rm $file # Clean up temporary file
Tool Version List
%%script bash
echo "Git"
echo ""
git --version
git config --global --list
echo ""
echo "Ruby"
echo ""
ruby -v
echo ""
echo "Python"
echo ""
python --version
echo ""
echo "Jupyter"
echo ""
jupyter --version
echo ""
echo "Kernels"
echo ""
jupyter kernelspec list
gem list
Git
git version 2.42.0
user.email=avanthika.daita@gmail.com
user.name=114540969
diff.tool=meld
difftool.prompt=false
difftool.meld.cmd=meld $LOCAL $REMOTE
Ruby
ruby 3.1.4p223 (2023-03-30 revision 957bb7cb81) [arm64-darwin22]
Python
Python 3.12.0
Jupyter
Selected Jupyter core packages...
IPython : 8.26.0
ipykernel : 6.29.5
ipywidgets : not installed
jupyter_client : 8.6.2
jupyter_core : 5.7.2
jupyter_server : not installed
jupyterlab : not installed
nbclient : 0.10.0
nbconvert : 7.16.4
nbformat : 5.10.4
notebook : not installed
qtconsole : not installed
traitlets : 5.14.3
Kernels
Available kernels:
myenv3114 /Users/avanthikadaita/Library/Jupyter/kernels/myenv3114
python3 /Users/avanthikadaita/avanthika_2025/venv/share/jupyter/kernels/python3
java /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/java
abbrev (default: 0.1.0)
activesupport (7.1.1, 7.1.0, 7.0.7.2)
addressable (2.8.5)
base64 (0.1.1)
benchmark (default: 0.2.0)
bigdecimal (3.1.4, default: 3.1.1)
bundler (2.5.17, 2.4.21, 2.4.20, default: 2.3.26)
cgi (default: 0.3.6)
coffee-script (2.4.1)
coffee-script-source (1.11.1)
colorator (1.1.0)
commonmarker (0.23.10)
concurrent-ruby (1.2.2)
connection_pool (2.4.1)
csv (default: 3.2.5)
date (default: 3.2.2)
debug (1.6.3)
delegate (default: 0.2.0)
did_you_mean (default: 1.6.1)
digest (default: 3.1.0)
dnsruby (1.70.0)
drb (2.1.1, default: 2.1.0)
em-websocket (0.5.3)
english (default: 0.7.1)
erb (default: 2.2.3)
error_highlight (default: 0.3.0)
etc (default: 1.3.0)
ethon (0.16.0)
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execjs (2.9.1, 2.8.1)
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