Terminal Setup Instructions

Mac Instructions

1. Click the spotlight search magnifying glass in the upper right of your screen.
2. Type Terminal
3. Hit Enter
4. You're in the terminal!
   Start getting comfortable with the terminal!
   Learn a text editor like vim / emacs.

Windows Instructions

1. Watch the first 5 minutes of this video to get WSL set up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0UQy6g2FA
   • You may have to update Windows to get it to work.
   • You may have to enable/disable certain things related to virtualization in "Windows Features"
   • You may have to enable virtualization settings in your BIOS.
2. You're in the terminal!
   Start getting comfortable with the terminal!
   Learn a text editor like vim / emacs.
3. You can install packages with "sudo apt install ____"
   • For instance, you should run "sudo apt install build-essential" to get most of the dependencies for this class.