Setup Guides

Set up your environment:

To get started, you're going to need some tools on your computer. These will vary depending on your computer's Operating System. We're going to want a package manager to install programs and an IDE/Text editor to write programs.

Mac:

• What is the terminal?

Windows:

• ConEmu and VM's

• Want to get a terminal-like environment in Windows? Check this out!

• Linux like package manager Chocolatey

• Cygwin

##Linux:

• Learning the shell
• Unix for beginners

##General:

1. Legacy text editors (Vim / Emacs):

   1. Vim (System installed in various Linux distributions & OS X)
   • Learn Vim Progressively (highly recommended)
   • MacVim (Provides a user interface layer to Vim in OS X)
     • [Swap your 'Caps Lock' and 'Escape' keys (OS X)] (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/faq.html.en#capslock)** (Very useful for Vim)
   • gVim (on Windows)
   • New! vimr (OS X only -- vim with more GUI around -- eliminates the need for NERDTree )
   • Already using Vim? (Not for beginners!) Here's a robust distribution of useful plugins
   2. emacs

2. GUI text editors:

   • Sublime Text 3 -- Multiplatform
   • Brackets.io -- Multiplatform
   • Atom.io -- Multiplatform

3. Git & version control tools:

   • A short explanation about version control, Git & GitHub -- has useful links