00: Gearing Up

This exercise is currently under development, and you should watch the videos that I've created to find out how to install everything. What I'm doing is I am actually installing node and all the things you need in the videos. Then when those are done I will come back and write a textual description of how to do it. But in the beginning the videos are much, much better for seeing how to install something.

In the video for your platform I will show you how to install these three things:

• Visual Studio Code
• Geany Editor
• NodeJS LTS
• Your terminal. Try Windows Terminal on Windows. Terminal on OSX.

These aren't very difficult to install, so you can probably figure out how to do it if you've done any software installation before. The only difficulty would probably be with finding your Terminal if you've never found it before. On Mac OS X it is simply called Terminal. On Windows it's called PowerShell. If you use Linux, I assume you know what your terminal is since usually so much work is done in Linux through the command line.

If you are an experienced programmer, then feel free to use any text editor you like and only install Node.