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As part of this project and course, we need to set up a simulation and development environment that

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we can use to implement the common filtering, and we're going to be using C++ rather than Python or

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Matlab, which might be used in other courses.

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And this is because all or most of the code that's used in production products that is used for real

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time control or sensing is pretty much written in C or C++.

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And this is especially true if you're running it on any embedded hardware.

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Other languages, such as Python and Matlab are great for learning the concepts, and they each have

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their own strengths.

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However, for you to be the most valuable to an employer in this area, you should be able to know how

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to write Filaret code in at least C++.

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We are also going to be using a longnecks fully operating system rather than Windows or Mac.

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And again, this is because Linux is a very common operating system for anything to do with robotics

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or automation.

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It is the most widely used operating system in the industry for any development or simulation.

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Bionics also has great development support for C++ and all of this is free, so when we're doing this

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courses a few different set of options you can run.

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The first one, which I recommend, is to use a Ubuntu virtual machine.

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And this can be run on every Linux, Windows or Mac.

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So whatever operating system you're running, you'll be able to run a Ubuntu virtual machine and in

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this case will go through the details of how to set that up so that everyone taking this course is using

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a common set up.

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So it makes it very easy to debug any problems.

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Another way is if you already have a native Ubuntu installation, so if you have it already installed,

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you can just use that.

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And then the last option is to cross compile C++ simulation code that's provided its course and you

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can cross compile it for Windows or Mac.

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So this is possible, but no support is going to be given in this regard.

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So this will be up to you to do it yourself.

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So I just set up a virtual box for Ubuntu.

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You can refer to the PDF setting up the C++ development environment in the resources section of this

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lesson for a complete step by step details.