This is a list of contributions I made on my own initiative to make testing and debugging lab assignments easier for myself and hundreds of classmates. Every header is a link to the dedicated repository/Gist, so this Gist serves as a "linktree" of sorts.
⚠️ Some have been endorsed on Piazza, but these creations were never officially assigned by instructors nor were they meant to be a subtitute for the real grading mechanisms.
| # Shorthand for compiling and running Verilog code | |
| function verilog() { | |
| # Default, like in EDA playground | |
| local FILENAMES="'design.sv' 'testbench.sv'" | |
| # If any arguments were provided at all, use those as filenames instead | |
| if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then | |
| FILENAMES="" | |
| # This automatically loops over all items in $@ | |
| for i; do |
Here's a compilation of some key binds beyond the obvious ones you've already ingrained in muscle memory. Master these and become a true coding ninja!
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Often times you may want to perform a bulk operation on many files at once in a certain directory, such as reformatting the names from files you just extracted from a downloaded archive.
Python is an amazing language for writing one-off scripts to handle such operations. In this gist, I share a basic template that I find useful for common use cases. I made it more versatile by using a regular expression defined beforehand to match and extract from the names of files you want to affect. This keeps the main for loop clean and focused on your desired change(s).
Just forgot something? Jump to the combined cheatsheet.
When learning a new language, the first thing to master is how to get help. From there, you can learn everything else much easier because you know how to orient yourself as you continue venturing into new and unfamiliar language features.
The PowerShell tutorial on which this is based seems to agree with me on this, seeing that they labeled these "The Three Core Cmdlets in PowerShell":
