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How To Install Virtualbox On Windows Host

The document provides instructions on installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu on a Windows host machine. It then discusses configuration options for Ubuntu in VirtualBox like RAM, cores, and hard disk size depending on the host machine. The document also provides instructions for installing common tools like Vim and Clang on Ubuntu and alternatives for coding like online compilers. It discusses options for code editors and IDEs and how to keep the output window open in Visual Studio. Finally, it recommends using CLion, Eclipse or Vim on Linux instead of VisualStudio and provides some sources for C programming exercises.

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How To Install Virtualbox On Windows Host

The document provides instructions on installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu on a Windows host machine. It then discusses configuration options for Ubuntu in VirtualBox like RAM, cores, and hard disk size depending on the host machine. The document also provides instructions for installing common tools like Vim and Clang on Ubuntu and alternatives for coding like online compilers. It discusses options for code editors and IDEs and how to keep the output window open in Visual Studio. Finally, it recommends using CLion, Eclipse or Vim on Linux instead of VisualStudio and provides some sources for C programming exercises.

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How to install virtualbox on windows host

You can find many resources on the internet. Here's an example for installing virtualbox
application on a windows 10 host machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mns5yqMfZk&ab_channel=ProgrammingKnowledge2

How to install ubuntu 20.04 on virtualbox


Here in this video you can find how to install ubuntu on your virtualbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MhydijWmc&list=TLPQMDQxMDIwMjCDsKD9OC8N
6g&index=2&ab_channel=ProgrammingKnowledge

The configuration (RAM, number of cores and size of your harddisk for ubuntu) depends on
your machine.

I'll provide you a more realistic one here:


M y PC (host machine) has 16 GB RAM, 4 cores, 1 TB of harddisk I configured my virtualbox
as below:
Please note that I use archlinux which is more lightweight compared to ubuntu. But these settings
should be enough for ubuntu as well.

How to install vim editor and clang compiler on


ubuntu
on ubuntu

open up a terminal and type

sudo apt install vim

to install vim

here's a quick video on how to do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggIOhRKHWBE&ab_channel=ATOM

Similarly you can download clang compiler by

sudo apt install clang

Quick and dirty solution for coding


Until you set up your coding platform (I strongly suggest that you do it this week), you can use
the online C compiler:

https://repl.it/languages/c

Suggestions on coding platforms


You're free to use your favorite code editor/IDE for this class.
However, I'll make some suggestions:
I use a text-based editor for coding and I'll be using it when we're exercising during the lecture:
vim

For terminal, easy-to-use and customize:


terminology (has a bug on ubuntu, easy to fix)

IDE, I dont use an IDE but these are favored by many coders:
eclipse
CLion
code editor:
sublime
VSC (Visual Studio Code)

Making output window stay in Visual Studio


DO NOT conio.h and getch() to keep the output window open. This is a platform-bound
(windows) requirement. The functionality of this is to wait for an input from the user so that the
program is not finished. There are alternatives to keep the output window open.

1) Just use Ctrl+F5 instead of F5 to build, this will keep open the console since it cancels the
debugger.

2)To automatically close or keep open the console go to Tools->Options->Debugging-


>Automatically close the console when debugging stops.

Should we setup VisualStudio on linux or windows?


VisualStudio is for windows. If you're on linux please install CLion, eclipse or a text-based
editor like vim or emacs. You should also install a compiler suite, I recommended clang from
LLVM project for this.

Some sources for C programming exercises


Please find below some resources useful to exercise C programming

https://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c-tutorial.html?inl=nv

https://codeforwin.org/2015/05/basic-programming-practice-problems.html

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