- Okay, so let's get
set up on our computer.
There's really only going to be two things
that you need in this
class, and I'll show you
how to get those two things ready.
The first is called the command line,
or the terminal. It's the same thing.
There's a other names for it, the shell,
which you might have heard before.
If you're on a Mac, luckily your computer
comes ready with a command line.
It's called terminal,
so if you do a search
for terminal, you can find it.
It's also available in
your applications folder,
which, uh, let's try to find it.
Finder > Applications
I don't think it's right
here, but its in Utilities.
There it is. Terminal.
Now you might want to
drag this into your docs
so you can access it
easily, or if it's already
here you can click here and do ...
Keep and Doc.
If you're on a Windows,
Windows comes with a version
of a terminal, it's called a Power Shell.
However, it doesn't support
all the same functions
that the Mac terminal
comes with, and so what I'd
actually recommend you
do if you're on a Windows
is download something called, "Git Bash".
And Git Bash is a,
kind of like a program built
for Windows that let's
you do a lot of the same
things that you would
want to do in the terminal
on a Mac.
So download this
and yeah,
I'll tell you a little
bit more about the terminal in a second.
But basically this is
a place where you can
type in commands. This
cursor's right here, you hit
Enter and things happen.
And the other thing that
you're going to need
is a text editor.
What I'm using as a text
editor for this class
is called Sublime Text.
I'm going to be using
Sublime Text 3, just make
sure I have that version.
A lot of text editors are the same.
This is basically like Microsoft Word,
but for editing code,
and you can put like,
"put code here", and I'm
not going to save this,
obviously, 'cause it's not code.
But this is where you type in code.
The thing that makes it
different from something
like Microsoft Word is that
it doesn't come with all that
formatting stuff. It's super simple.
It'll recognize what kind
of code you're writing
and it'll highlight stuff
with different colors,
which is kind of nice.
Actually, based on that
you can choose different
languages, but if you
save the file with the
right extension it'll do
that automatically for you.
You can use any other
kind of text editor if you
have one that you prefer,
but if not just go check
out Sublime Text. You
can download it for free.
It's going to give you
those annoying, like,
pop-ups to ask you to register and pay,
but you don't have to do
that, you just click "cancel"
and you'll be good to go.
So go ahead and get
those two things ready,
and then move on to the
next step when you have
Sublime Text and you have your terminal
ready for you.