1. Principles and practices

This week there are no group assignments.

Here are some interesting info and links that we share with our students.

• Principles and Practices
• Assignments for Principles and Practices, Project Management

Git links

• https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/project_management/archive.html
• Fast guide to upload and update your repo to the GIT repo of Fab Academy
• Julians Recitations 2024 about version control and Gitlab
• https://adamtheautomator.com/gitlab-ssh/
• https://git-scm.com/

Common commands in Git

git status git add . git commit -m "write here your text to explain" git push

MarkDown

Changing the fonts Change in mkdocs.yml

font: # See available fonts at https://fonts.google.com/ text: Roboto code: Roboto Mono

Markdown links

• w3schools Markdown introduction
• Svavar Konráðsson Markdown setup
• Material for MkDocs by Squidfunk
• Getting Started with Markdown

FFMPEG

Installing FFMPEG in Windows

winget install ffmpeg

If you open cmd with administrator privileges, you can run

setx /m PATH "C:\ffmpeg\bin;%PATH%",

and change C:\ffmpeg\bin to your path to FFmpeg.

Close the terminal and open it again Now you can use FFMEG within the terminal You have to change the filenames input_filename.mp4 and output_video.mp4

ffmpeg -i input_filename.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -crf 25 -preset veryslow -movflags +faststart -vf scale=-2:360 -c:a aac -b:a 128k output_video.mp4

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Resources

• Great info on how to install FFMPEG in Windows
• Gyan.dev codex ffpeg site

ImageMagic

Installing ImageMagick in Windows * Download from https://imagemagick.org/index.php * Download .exe file and run it. * Open the folder in the terminal where you want to convert images. * Open the terminal and write if you want to change all images in one folder

magick mogrify -quality 50% -resize 1000 *.jpg

Resources on ImageMagick

• See the FabAcademy Cheat Sheet