There are some tools you'll need installed to work along with the practical sessions.
If you have a lab environment provided for you then it will be already configured, but you should check that everything is installed.
We'll be looking at some apps written in Node.js and .NET.
We'll also use Git to download the lab content, so you'll need a client on your machine to talk to GitHub.
Open a command line (on Windows click the Windows icon and search for PowerShell). Then type (or copy and paste):
node --version
You should see something like this in the output:
v18.14.2
The exact version doesn't matter, but if you see an error you need to install NodeJS.
In your command line enter:
dotnet --list-sdks
You should see something like this in the output:
6.0.201 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
The version and location doesn't matter, but if you see an error you need to install .NET 6.0 SDK.
In your command line enter:
git --version
You should see something like this in the output:
git version 2.31.1.windows.1
The version doesn't matter, but if you see an error you need to install Git.
We'll explain all about Git during the course. For now we need to download all the course materials so you can work through them.
In your terminal enter these commands:
cd ~/Documents
git clone https://github.com/courselabs/dev
This will clone the content, downloading a copy you can use into your Documents folder, in a subfolder called dev.
When the command completes, you'll have all the content stored on your machine.
Now you can launch VS Code from the dev folder, and it will load all the class materials:
code ./dev
Now you're good to go 🚀