Software installation - Windows

2022-23 students: I haven’t verified these instructions this year yet. If you do this setup, please report back to me (either that it worked, or what the problem is). Thank you!

Install Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, similar to Homebrew on Mac.

Read and follow the instructions from Chocolatey website (carefully!) to install: https://chocolatey.org/install

Install Java

choco install openjdk

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

java -version
javac -version

Install Atom

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

choco install atom

Paths

If you installed something but can’t access it from the command line, you probably need to adjust your PATH system environment variable.

Navigate to Control Panel (System Properties) / Advanced and click the Environment Variables button. Or search for “Edit the System Environment Variables”.

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.

choco install github-desktop