Tool Procedure for my Mac • 4 min read

Hacks

Complete the procedure below accurately. These are absolutely required and must be 100% accurate for your success.

GitHub Account

• Follow instruction https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/signing-up-for-github/signing-up-for-a-new-github-account Use your own personal/permanent email… NOT SCHOOL!!! GitHub account belongs to you.

MacOS 1st Time Developer

VSCode install

• Install VSCode

Anaconda install

• Download for MacOS: Anaconda
• Run Install: Answer yes to questions

Homebrew install

• Copy and Paste to Install from Terminal Homebrew
  • Copy bash ... curl ... command using copy box on website
  • Launch terminal from search bar
  • Paste bash ... curl ... command into Terminal …
  • Make sure command starts, this should provide feedback/output in terminal and could take a long time, like 10-min, there could be a prompt in the middle, at about 5-minutes. Follow any on screen instructions provided in terminal output to finish.
• Homebrew installs a tool called “brew” which helps add and manage developer packages on MacOS.

At this point, the next task is to prepare tools. You must start a new Terminal. Now the Terminal prompt should be prefixed with (base). If not, you need to go back to Anaconda install.

• Open new Terminal, your prompt should look like this…

  (base) iMac:~ jmort1021$
  

Key Packages needed on MacOS

• Close and Start a new terminal, run each command in Terminal

  $ brew list # list packages
  $ brew update # update package list
  $ brew upgrade # upgrade packages
  $ brew install git  # install latest git
  $ brew install python # install python3 for development
  $ python --version # version of python3 installed