During this course, we will use both SkillPies interactive examples as well as Github Classroom to track your work. If you do not have an account at Github or Github Classroom, please create one now. We will also extensively use git as our source control versioning tool.  If you do not know what git is and how to work with it, do not despair; in this course, we cover everything!

While we allow you to use an online code editor, it is more comfortable if you work locally on your computer with development software installed on your computer. Please install the following tools now (use the standard installation for all tools):

• Git
• Visual Studio Code
• Node.JS

Once the tools are installed, please install the pnpm package manager, which is a very performant and disk-space-aware tool managing your javascript packages (check out the video on their page explaining the difference to npm). To install the pnpm, please run the following command in your terminal:

npm i -g pnpm

If you run into problems on Mac and Linux, you may need elevated privileges to install a global system package. To do so, please run the following command instead:

sudo npm i -g pnpm

Congratulations! You are ready to start the course.