Setting up your computer

Material for Platform Based Development

Setting up your computer

IDE

During the course, we will use VSCode for giving the examples. Other options are available which you can use under your own responsability.

Tip: While installing VSCode, we recommend to activate the option "Add to PATH"

Terminal

For Windows 10 or more, we recommend the usage of Linux WSL. Find the installation guide here.

Additionally, we will use Hyper.js for running the Linux WSL instead of the default terminal included. (Optional)

For other Windows versions, you will need to go with the Gitbash or Cygwin.

Learn the basics: Terminal 101

Git

git will allow us to connect to a repository, which is a virtual location where we will store code. You can think of it as a Google Drive with many many more features for developers.

Git is included by default with the Linux WSL.