Install and requirements

Here are the requirements to follow the school lectures.

Participants should have basic knowledge of Python and shell command-line usage.

Software Installation

Ensure the following tools are installed on your machine:

• a Unix terminal
• git: Installation Instructions
• Pixi: Installation Instructions
• Podman: Installation Instructions
• Apptainer: Installation Instruction
• an IDE. We recommend VSCode but other options are perfectly fine.

GitHub account

Please create a GitHub account before the school

Get the lectures material and code

To retrieve the pkoffee project:

1. Go to https://github.com/s3-school/pkoffee
2. Fork it
3. Clone your fork :

   cd /path/to/working/directory
   git clone git@github.com:<your-github-username>/pkoffee.git
   

To retrieve the lectures material and exercises:

cd /path/to/working/directory
git clone https://github.com/s3-school/s3-2026-lectures.git