# Our blog post about Stacks

**URL:** <https://community.codio.com/t/our-blog-post-about-stacks/32>\
**Category:** Configuring Environments\
**Created:** [February 4, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.codio.com/t/our-blog-post-about-stacks/32 "2022-02-04T19:31:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjason](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/community.codio.com/sjason/32/13_2.png) [@sjason](https://community.codio.com/u/sjason)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.codio.com/t/our-blog-post-about-stacks/32/1 "2022-02-04T19:31:28Z")

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A Stack is the software configuration of a project, incorporating everything on the project/Ubuntu server, outside the code workspace. Stacks include the operating system and other components such as compilers, linkers, interpreters, databases, and tools.

Providing your students with a pre-configured environment containing all the tools they need means you don’t need to author lengthy installation instructions.

[read the entire blog post](https://www.codio.com/blog/addressing-technical-challenges-in-cs-education-using-codio-stacks)

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**Author:** ![jball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@jball](https://community.codio.com/u/jball)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.codio.com/t/our-blog-post-about-stacks/32/2 "2022-03-25T19:56:22Z")

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This webinar onThis text will be hidden [Codio’s VM features](https://www.codio.com/webinar-virtual-machine-based-features-in-codio) is also _super_ helpful! (thanks to our wonderful @mkraev 🤓

[![Webinar - Virtual Machine-based Features on Codio - 07.15.21.mp4](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/codio/original/1X/462aed83d371168633bd487824fb4445a3859421.jpeg)](https://www.codio.com/webinar-virtual-machine-based-features-in-codio?wvideo=8evsdlc42g)