Student Development Environment (mac)

This is a short list, but it will take a few days to get through the entire thing, assuming nothing goes wrong (something will go wrong)

Other required tools: Slack, dropbox, outlook, https://is.oregonstate.edu/microsoft, jamf?

Download browsers

Chrome
Firefox
Firefox Dev
any others you think you'll want for testing (Opera, etc)

Start with a bit of house cleaning

House cleaning link. (There are a lot of good general development settings and tools in this guide, though it won't show you how to set up a drupal environment, but bookmark it for reference.)

Start with System Preferences section
Homebrew section.
iTerm section and just the zsh section
Vim section (May as well. Vim is a text editor that's only a few years younger than me, and is based on the text editor vi which is older than you and I put together, but you'd be surprised how often it comes up. It's very, very, very different from other text editors. After you install, run the command 'vimtutor' in the terminal and play through a few vim exercises. You won't need to do more than a handful of them.)
VSCode section, but only grab the javascript, sql, and vs code icons extensions. (You'll get plenty of others as you work with VSCode more.)
Show hidden files https://techstacker.com/how-to-always-show-hidden-files-finder-macos/ (careful with this one. you might not want to do it on your personal computer)

Side note – Dracula is a nice cohesive set of themes for your environments, but there's lots of others. I use vscode with the niteowl theme.

Get git

Configure git and install it, if you haven't already installed it. (what is git and how do I use it) Let me know if you don't have a github account yet, and we'll set that up for you.