Sublime and Git Installation

Quick reference

• 00:05 So in this video, we're going to go ahead and download and
• 00:08 install our text editor and our terminal.
• 00:10 And we're going to be using the Sublime Text editor, this is it right here.
• 00:13 It's completely free.
• 00:14 Like I said though, if you have a text editor that you like using, Notepad++,
• 00:18 Visual Studio Code, anything at all, feel free to use that throughout this course.
• 00:23 It really doesn't matter what text editor you use.
• 00:26 We also need a terminal, something to write commands, and
• 00:29 we're going to be using this Git Bash terminal.
• 00:31 And it's also free.
• 00:33 Now I'm on a Windows computer.
• 00:35 This terminal acts very much like the terminal on a Linux or a Mac computer.
• 00:39 And in fact if you have a Linux or
• 00:41 Mac, you can absolutely use the terminal on your Linux or Mac.
• 00:44 Just go up to the little search function on your computer,
• 00:47 type in terminal and it'll pop up.
• 00:49 The commands that we're going to be using throughout the course
• 00:51 are going to be the same in the terminal for Windows.
• 00:54 This one right here or the one on Linux and Mac.
• 00:56 In this video we're just going to download these things so head back over to Google,
• 00:59 type in sublime text, and the first thing that pops up is sublimetext.com.
• 01:04 This is the website.
• 01:06 Right now we're on Sublime Text 3 build 3207.
• 01:09 If these numbers change by the time you watch this video, no big deal,
• 01:12 just download the latest version and you should be fine.
• 01:15 In order to download and install this, we just click this button here to download.
• 01:19 And like with Node, we can save this anywhere, it doesn't matter at all.
• 01:22 You can just go ahead and save it to your desktop.
• 01:23 Now I'm not going to do this because I've already installed it,
• 01:26 and this is just very straightforward.
• 01:28 The same thing'll happen as the last video down here at the bottom of the screen.
• 01:32 A little icon'll pop up when it's finished downloading, just click that and
• 01:35 follow the instructions to install it.
• 01:37 There's nothing you need to change or mess with.
• 01:40 So just take the defaults for everything and it should install it.
• 01:42 In order to run Sublime, just head over to your Windows Start menu,
• 01:46 type in Sublime and it'll pop right up.
• 01:48 Now we need the Git Bash terminal and I'm just going to go to Google and
• 01:52 type in git bash.
• 01:53 And the first thing that pops up is this git-scm.com/downloads.
• 01:59 And this is the download page for this and we're on version 2.21.0.
• 02:05 Again, if this is a different number by the time you watch this video,
• 02:07 no big deal, just download the latest version.
• 02:09 And we're going to go ahead and download this.
• 02:12 And the same thing, we can download this to our desktop or anywhere at all.
• 02:17 And this is 44 megabytes, not very big but for
• 02:20 some reason this website takes a long time to download.
• 02:23 I have high speed Internet and this should download in a second or
• 02:26 less and you can see it's taking several seconds to download.
• 02:29 That's normal, that happens all the time on this website.
• 02:31 So as soon as this has finished downloading, we get this little icon here.
• 02:35 We can go ahead and click it to open.
• 02:38 And click Run.
• 02:39 Now I will walk you through this one because it's a little bit more
• 02:42 complicated.
• 02:44 We don't really have to do much but
• 02:45 I want to show you a few things in the installation.
• 02:48 So just take all the defaults here.
• 02:50 Just go ahead and click Next.
• 02:52 And here's the weird thing.
• 02:53 So it's asking what text editor we're going to be using.
• 02:56 Now we happen to be using Sublime Text, which is the first one listed.
• 02:59 But the thing is the Git Bash terminal doesn't really integrate
• 03:02 with our text editor.
• 03:04 We're not going to be using them together in any way.
• 03:06 So it really doesn't matter what you click here.
• 03:09 If you're using a different editor and it's not listed, just leave it as Sublime.
• 03:13 It's no big deal.
• 03:14 And it doesn't change anything at all.
• 03:16 It's kind of a weird thing to ask in an installation.
• 03:18 I'm not sure why they do that, but just kind of one of those weird things.
• 03:21 So go ahead and click Next.
• 03:22 And we want this bottom one selected, it's the default.
• 03:25 So click Next again, we want this OpenSSH selected, it's also the default.
• 03:30 Click Next.
• 03:31 Again, we want the use OpenSSL library.
• 03:34 It's the default, so go ahead and click Next again.
• 03:37 We want this top one, Checkout Windows-style.
• 03:40 It's also the default.
• 03:41 And this Use MinTTY, that's also the default.
• 03:46 And finally, these two you want to keep checked.
• 03:49 Again, the default.
• 03:50 Now you come to this screen and we're almost ready to go ahead and
• 03:54 finish the installation.
• 03:55 Click the installation button right here.
• 03:57 I'm not going to do that now because I've already installed it on my computer but
• 04:00 you can go ahead and do that.
• 04:01 And then you get the little box that pops up with the little bar that shows how much
• 04:05 time is left in the installation, couple of minutes or so it takes to install.
• 04:09 And then it'll close on its own afterwards.
• 04:11 So going to go ahead and let you do that, because like I said,
• 04:14 I've already installed that, and we are now almost done.
• 04:17 In order to run Git Bash, same thing, just go to your Windows Start menu,
• 04:21 type in G-I-T, it'll pop up and you just go ahead and click it.
• 04:24 So we're almost done with our tools.
• 04:26 We have to download one more thing, the Heroku Toolbelt, and we'll go ahead and
• 04:29 do that in the next video.

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