SSH gives you the ability to log onto the school’s server and run your programs from home. OS X is built on a unix platform, and so it has, natively, a unix terminal that most likely has python installed. It also has installed the ability to use SSH.
To do this, you’ll need to first open a terminal. In OS X, the terminal is found by going to your “Applications” directory, and then from there into your “Utilities” directory. The Terminal is located there. For those of you working from home, I recommend keeping this in your dock.
Anyways, once you open the terminal, it should look like this:
Next, you will want to get into the school’s servers. In order to do this you write “ssh yourusername@csc.cpsc.ucalgary.ca” and press enter. “yourusername” being your cpsc user name. After this, you will be prompted for a password. When you try to type it in, nothing will show up. Don’t be alarmed; just type it anyways and press enter. This is shown below:
Afterwards, you’ll see an image similar to the one below, and you should now be in your home directory at the University, and should be able to work away.
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