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Software installation - Mac

Install Homebrew

The first step is to install Homebrew, which is a software package manager that will help us install everything else we need.

  • Go to the Homebrew website and read the installation instructions.
  • To install, you will copy/paste a command from their webpage to your Terminal.

You can install everything else with Homebrew, from the command line.

Install Java

Install the Java Development Kit (JDK) (info). 

brew install openjdk

Check that everything is installed properly. These commands will report the Java version.

javac -version
java -version

Install Geany

Install the Geany open source text editor (info).

brew install geany

You can create an alias for the command line. 

alias geany=/Applications/Geany.app/Contents/MacOS/geany

Create a GitHub account

GitHub hosts code repositories for software projects. We will be using GitHub for sharing code.

Please make an account and email me your account name.

Install GitHub Desktop

GitHub Deskop is a desktop application that facilitates interacting with repositories on GitHub.

brew install github