devcontainer-phys2200

Configure a Virtual Machine aka devcontainer aka GitHub codespaces for a 'Computational Physics' class. The class uses Julia as the programming language and Jupyter notebooks as the primary programming interface.

Note to self:

1. The container uses mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/universal:latest which is a prebuilt container image published by Microsoft. Presumably, GitHub doesn't charge for the disk space used by prebuilt 'official' images. The image comes with non-root container user named codespace.
2. The build process installs IJulia. This step is mandatory for using Jupyter Julia notebooks.
3. The build process installs PythonPlot. This step is only needed if PythonPlot is used. If you are not using PythonPlot, edit the .devcontainer/Dockerfile as needed.

Quick start:

1. Clone this repository, or use it as a template, or copy the repository's content while keeping the directory structure.
2. In your cloned repository, navigate to repository's root directory (../devcontainer-phys2200/ in my case)
3. Click the green Code button, then click the Codespaces tab.
4. Click the Create codespace on main button.
5. Watch your codespace is being created.
6. Start using your virtual machine.