CPS 512 (Duke University) Distributed * Systems
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• Install Java JDK-8 from oracle.com
• Install scala from http://scala-lang.org, follow instrux to define SCALA_HOME variable and add $SCALA_HOME/bin to your PATH shell variable.
• Install sbt, e.g., from http://scala-sbt.org. (to SBT_HOME)
• Install akka from http://akka.io (to AKKA_HOME)
• Add $AKKA_HOME/bin and $SBT_HOME to your PATH shell variable
• Create a file ~/.sbtconfig with a single line:
  export SBT_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=512M
• Download the rings example (e.g., from course repository on gitlab.oit.duke.edu), cd rings, sbt, and type "run".
• sbt should download whatever else it needs...
• Optional: install IntelliJ/IDEA integrated dev environment from jetbrains.com, and its scala plugin (follow instrux on their site).
• Optional: browse akka examples at http://www.typesafe.com/activator/templates

Example code: a key-value store in a bottle

Scala resources
twitter.github.io/scala_school
Official documentation: http://www.scala-lang.org/documentation/
www.scalacourses.com
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/scala/index.htm
http://scalatutorials.com/
https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/

Busy java developer guide to scala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qRYOayG9SM

Books: http://www.scala-lang.org/documentation/books.html

Developer Code-Foo
project Euler
https://leetcode.com
http://www.topcoder.com/

Git resources
http://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ch02.html
https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

Public key cryptography
Wikipedia
How the RSA cipher works
Pcmag: a picture is worth 1000 words

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