Getting Started

Important: It should go without saying that anytime you are asked to create an account you should ALWAYS:

• Make sure to use a professional username/handle. We recommend the username incorporates your name.
• Be sure to add an appropriate avatar (picture or image) to your profile.

Passwords

Consider a password manager like enpass or lastpass to manage all of your accounts. (This way you can keep track of your Admin password for MySQL, which I guarantee you will otherwise forget.)

Slack

• Visit Slack's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.
• Sign in to the zcw workspace.

Discord

• Visit Discord's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.
• Join the ZCW Active Cohort channel.

gmail

• Visit gmail.com and create an account.
• make sure you choose a business friendly username.

iCloud

Use your spiffy new business gmail account to create an iCloud account (if you don't already have one from your iPhone). Even if you're an andoid-head, use iCloud for certain things when you're using Apple products. You can always login later on iCloud to access stuff from windoze or android.

github

• Visit github.com and signup for an account.

Terminal/Shell

Option 1

• Command (or Cmd) ⌘ - Space bar to open the Spotlight search field.
• Type "Terminal".
• Press Enter.

Option 2

• Open Finder
• Navigate to /Applications/Utilities/
• Double click on Terminal.app

git

Using Terminal, issue the following command:

git --version

This should return the a line similar (or an even later version) to:

git version 2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3)

You may need run the following in order to install git along with other various command line tools.

xcode-select --install

Brew

• Visit https://brew.sh/.
• Follow the directions under "Install Homebrew".

JDK

• Visit Oracle's download page for the Oracle JDK.
• Download the dmg for Java JDK 1.8.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

IntelliJ

• Visit JetBrains' download page for IntelliJ.
• Download the dmg for the Community version for Mac.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

(OR)

Installing IntelliJ

1. First begin by installing HomeBrew by copying and pasting the command below into the terminal
   • /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
2. After Java has been installed, copy and paste the following command in the terminal
   • brew cask install intellij-idea
3. Upon launching IntelliJ, ensure the Apache Maven plugin is enabled.
   • From the menu bar found at the top of application, select Plugins, and ensure Maven is checked.
4. Ensure that a project is opened via its pom.xml located at the root directory of the project.
   • When prompted, select Open as Project.
   • If prompted, select Delete Existing Project and Import.

End of First Day Installs

These will be done later:

Postgres App

• Visit Postgresapp's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

pgAdmin

• Vist pgAdmin's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

MySQL

• Visit MySQL's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

MySQL Workbench

• Visit MySQL's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

Postman

• Visit Postman's download page.
• Download the latest version (zip).
• Drag and drop the application to the /Applications folder.