A few people have inquired as to whether they can do homeworks 5 and 6 on the cpsc server. The answer is yes, with two caveats:

• Do realize that like all remote servers, the cpsc server is “headless,” meaning you get a command line to it but no graphical display. Thus you won’t be able to run the animation and see it run. You can, however: (1) save plots (with the plt.savefig("filename.png") command) and download them to your machine to view, and also of course (2) run time-intensive parameter sweeps.
• The default version of Python on cpsc is really old (version 3.10) and incompatible with the latest Mesa release (which uses the discrete_space system we’ve been relying on). There is, however, an updated version, which you can run by typing “python3.12” instead of “python“.