Install all the things!

Let’s change a few settings on your computer to make development life easier.

1. Go to a folder.
2. Go to the “View” tab.
3. Make sure “File name extensions” is checked.

We need to install a bunch of browsers because, as web designers, we don’t know what browser someone will be using—so we need to test our websites in all of them.

1. Go to Mozilla’s website and download Firefox.
2. Run the installer on your computer by double clicking.

Go to Google’s website and download Chrome.
(Ditto steps above.)

Go to Opera’s website and download Opera.
(Ditto steps above.)

This will make it so double clicking HTML files opens your browser instead of a code editor.

1. Download this HTML file. (If clicking this link doesn’t download the file, Right Click > Download Linked File.)
2. Go to where it was downloaded and right click—press “Properties”.
3. Under the “Opens with” section, click the “Change…” button and set it to “Firefox” or “Chrome”.
4. Close the properties window and trash the HTML file.

We need to install the GitHub Desktop application so that we can manage and upload our code to GitHub.

1. Download the app from the GitHub Desktop website.
2. Double click the installer and let it do its thing.
3. Sign in with your GitHub username, email address, and password.

We need to install some extra development tools on our computer so Markbot can work well.

Go to Git’s download page and download the Windows version.

Install Git onto your computer. One of the setup screens has options we have to change.

On the “Adjusting your PATH environment” screen, switch to “Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt”.

We need to install the OpenJDK because the automated marking program, Markbot, needs access to Java for performing some of it’s tasks.

Go to the OpenJDK download page on Adopt OpenJDK website.

Choose the “Open JDK 11 (LTS)” version of OpenJDK at the bottom of the list.

1. Download the JDK for your computer.
2. Double click the installer and let it do its thing.
3. Delete the downloaded file.

All of the coding exercises we do in this class will be using Markbot to automatically grade your work. So, we need to set that up.

1. Download Markbot. (or Markbot for Mac)
2. Double click the installer and let it do its thing.
3. Delete the downloaded file.

Open up Markbot and sign in with your GitHub username.

If Markbot gives you an “Unidentified developer” security warning—click the “More info” link and press “Run anyways”.

Add your Progressinator API key

Go back to your browser tab with your Progressinator profile & copy & paste the API key into Markbot:

Then “Sign-in” to Markbot.