Pre-requisites

Training Day Technology Minimum Specifications

• Windows (10 & above), OSX or Linux

• Installed and running version of SSH

  • OpenSSH

  • SSH provided within OSX & Linux

  • Windows Terminal or PuTTY for Windows

• Slack and access to the SNOMED International Public channels
  
  

  • request an account - (http://snomed.org/slack-signup)

  • install Slack - https://slack.com/downloads/

• Optional: Installed and running version of Git

  • https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

• Optional: An IDE in order to write code, open source examples include:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/

  • Atom - https://atom.io/

Other Recommend Useful Software

• JSON viewer for Chromium based browsers - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-viewer/gbmdgpbipfallnflgajpaliibnhdgobh

Local machine software pre-requisites

If you will not be using the recommended server instances which are allocated to all attendees during the day, there are two options to be ready for the course if you wish to run the software on your own computer which must have at least 16Gb RAM :

Native install (recommended)

• Installed and correctly configured version of Java 11
  
  

  • https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java11-windows

• Installed version of Elasticsearch (v7.7 has been tested to work)

  • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/install-elasticsearch.html

Docker install

• Installed and running version of Docker (ensure the local docker install has access to at least 8Gb RAM)

  • Windows - https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/

  • OSX - https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/

Training day software development skill pre-requisites

To make the best of the developer training day, the following software development skills are expected and required:

• Understanding of retrieving, querying and updating data via REST APIs using JSON

• Understanding of how to use Git for source code management

• Development in at least one of the following languages:

  • Javascript (all examples will be given using javascript)

  • Java

  • .Net