Installation Instructions: Windows

To work on this repository on a Windows machine you are going to need to install a couple of tools first.

Installing a Text Editor

Note: If you already have a preferred plaintext editor that you like, go ahead and skip this section!

You will need to install a text editor in order to write files to put in your git repository and push to the website. A text editor like Vim or Emacs is different from something like MS Word, because it will create plain text files with no automatic formatting.

In this workshop, I am recommending you install and use Atom. Atom is a cool text editor that has a pretty graphical user interface, and is entirely open-source! You can even view the source code on github.

Another text editor that will be useful for you to know in the future is Vim. This editor takes a little more getting used to, and I won't be going over it in the curriculum, but I recommend trying it out in the future!

Install Atom from here, and poke around a bit to get used to writing a file in it.

Installing Git

You can install git for windows here. This will install both gitgui and gitbash on your computer. In this workshop we will be using gitbash.