Setup Guide🚀 for New Windows Students!

Week 1-4🔧🔨

Hi Windows Students!!!🎓 You got this!🚀🚀🚀

  • We started by creating a Github account and logging into the OpenCodingSociety, a powerful resource where you will use to guide your through for the rest of the year
  • Then Accessed VSCode through the offical website, a place where you will code, experiment, and learn, you will be able to program and change your website there
  • Then you have to install the VScode on your computer, I will talk about it later
  • Then we worked on our About page using vscode.dev
  • Next, we focused on building our tools on VScode
  • For Windows students, follow the procedure below

First, understand the following🚀

Shell Commands

  • Windows: wsl, then standard Linux commands inside Ubuntu

Version Control Commands

  • git clone: Make a working copy of a git repository from the cloud to your local machine.
  • git pull: Update your local copy of the repository with changes from the cloud repository.
  • git commit: Save changes to files in your local repository.
  • git push: Send updates from your local repository to the remote repository.

Now do the following procedure

Windows Setup 🚀 Install VSCode VSCode link, Select OS and select default on prompts

WSL install ☁️

  • Open Windows Terminal and Pin to Taskbar. All of these commands are activated from Windows Shell (C:)

wsl –install -d Ubuntu-24.04

  • Setup a username and password when prompted. On password you will be typing but will not see respones.

At the conclusion of the install you will receive a WSL Ubuntu prompt. For now we will exit WSL.

  • exit

Set as default:

wsl –set-default Ubuntu-24.04

  • To start WSL Ubuntu from (C:)

  • command: wsl

Close Terminal.

WSL Ubuntu Setup

First-time Setup

Open Terminal by right clicking on Terminal in Taskbar and selecting Ubuntu 24.04

Run these commands to set up your Ubuntu developer tools for the first time.

  • mkdir opencs

  • cd opencs

  • git config –global credential.helper “/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin/git-credential-manager.exe”

  • git clone https://github.com/Open-Coding-Society/student.git

  • cd student/

  • ./scripts/activate_ubuntu.sh # prompts for your recently created WSL Ubuntu password

  • ./scripts/activate.sh # prompts for Git UID and Personal Email

  • ./scripts/venv.sh

System Checks (Optional)

Open Terminal by right clicking on Terminal in Taskbar and selecting Ubuntu 24.04

Run these commands to verify your system setup and check installed tools.

  • python –version

  • pip –version

  • ruby -v

  • bundle -v

  • gem –version

  • git config –global –list

Restarting a terminal

Open Terminal by right clicking on Terminal in Taskbar and selecting Ubuntu 24.04

Each time you open a new terminal session, run these commands to activate your environment and start working on the student project in VS Code.

  • cd opencs/student

  • source venv/bin/activate

  • code .

Once you are done with all these, Congratulations! You have COMPLETED setting up your basic tools and are ready to start programming!

HOT TIP🔥🔥🔥 - if you are struggling, ask chatgpt or copilot, they are a great use in solving errors! You can also go ask Mr.Mortensen or others in your group!

YOU GOT THIS!!! Everything may seem confusing at first, I experienced the confusion at first too! But I didn’t give up, I asked Mr.Mortensen and others in my class for help and I gradually understood everything!