Install fest! Woohoo!

Learning goals

• Install the tools we need for Unit 1
• Use the appropriate section for your operating system

For Mac users

Slack

• Download link: https://slack.com/help/articles/207677868-Download-Slack-for-Mac
• Finish line: you can open Slack using the spotlight search (push command + space), type in "slack", and open the program. You should see the GA Immersive Students team in your lefthand bar

iTerm2

• Download link: https://www.iterm2.com/
• Finish line: you can open iterm2 using the spotlight search (see above)

Homebrew

• Download link: https://brew.sh/
• Finish line: typing brew --version in your command line displays some text, which could be /usr/local/bin/brew or something else, but not an error message.

git

• Download link: type brew install git into your terminal
• Finish line: git --version yields some output without errors

Visual Studio Code

• Download link: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• Finish line: code version yields some output without errors

node

• Download link: none, type brew install node into your terminal
• Finish line: both node -v and npm -v run without error. Then, run sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib

zsh (optional!)

• Download link: none, just type brew install zsh into your terminal
• Finish line: zsh --version yields some output without errors

ohMyZsh (optional!)

• Download link: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
• Extra instructions: In the Basic Installation section, run the command next to curl in the table
• Finish line: when you run ls -lah ~ | grep zsh, you should see a line that ends with .oh-my-zsh

For Windows users

Before you get started, make sure you can open the program called PowerShell. This is our terminal that we will use for the rest of the installation.

Slack

• Download link: https://slack.com/help/articles/209038037-Download-Slack-for-Windows
• Finish line: you can open Slack from the start menu, and you can see the GA Immersive Students team in your lefthand bar

git

• Download link: https://git-scm.com/download/win (you want the 64-bit for windows setup)
• Finish line: You can open the Git Bash program from the start menu. You should also be able to get non-error output when you run git --version in your terminal.

Visual Studio Code

• Download link: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• Finish line: You can open the VS Code program from the start menu, and can run code --version without errors.

node

• Download link: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• Finish line: You can run node -v and npm -v

Linux

If you are using Linux, you probably already know how to install programs and verify that they are working. It is always ok to google how to get these programs for your version of ubuntu! Your checklist of installs is:

• Slack
• git
• Visual Studio Code
• node
• zsh and ohMyZsh (optional)