Getting Started (on Day One)

Get your Mac onto the classroom wifi. How? Look around.

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.

gmail

IF you have not already gotten a professional email address for use within the course

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

github

If you haven't already,

• Visit github.com and signup for an account.

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 android-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.

Passwords

Use the built-in macOS password manager 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.) Be sure to get a free iCloud account using your "professional email address" if you don't already have one tied to an iPhone.

DO NOT USE "Find My Mac" - It makes Renee's life terrible, and you don't want that. Nope, you surely don't.

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 at https://discord.gg/7KbwdZqh

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

Good. Now you're getting acclimated.

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

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

JDK

• Visit Amazon's 'Corretto' JDK download page for the Amazon JDK.
• Download the PKG file for Corretto JDK 11 - BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD for Platform macOS aarch64
  • https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-11-aarch64-macos-jdk.pkg
• Use the downloaded .pkg file to install the application.

BlueJ

• Download the Mac version of BlueJ at https://www.bluej.org

IntelliJ

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

End of First Day Installs

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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.