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) from the Eclipse Foundation (latest version, 16) (info).

brew install --cask temurin

Check that everything is installed properly: each of these commands should report version 16.x.

javac -version
java -version

Install Atom

Atom is a text editor. If you already have a favorite text editor, feel free to use that instead.

brew cask install atom

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 --cask github