Important: It should go without saying that anytime you are asked to create an account you should ALWAYS:

• Make sure to use a professional username/handle. We recommend the username incorporates your name.
• Be sure to add an appropriate avatar to your profile.

Consider a password manager like enpass or lastpass to manage all of your accounts. (This way you can keep track of your Admin password for MySQL, which I guarantee you will otherwise forget.)

• Command (or Cmd) ⌘ - Space bar to open the Spotlight search field.
• Type "Terminal".
• Press Enter.

• Open Finder
• Navigate to /Applications/Utilities/
• Double click on Terminal.app

Using Terminal, issue the following command:

git --version

This should return the a line similar to:

git version 2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3)

You may need run the following in order to install git along with other various command line tools.

xcode-select --install

Using Terminal, issue the following command:

chsh -s /bin/bash

• Visit https://brew.sh/.
• Follow the directions under "Intall Homebrew".

• Visit Anaconda's download page.
• Download the pkg file for Python 3.7 version.
• Install the package. Be sure to follow intructions for Mac OS version "Catalina".
  • NB: the new default shell is zsh. You will instead need to run source ~/opt/anaconda3/bin/activate followed by conda init zsh. (this is only be needed if you did not change your shell to bash)

• Visit JetBrains' download page for PyCharm.
• Download the dmg for the Professional version for Mac.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

• Visit JetBrains' download page for DataGrip.
• Download the dmg.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

• Visit Postgresapp's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

• Visit MySql's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.

• Get the Discord app on your mac
• sign up for an account
• look for the ZipCode Discord Server and join

• Visit Slack's download page.
• Download the dmg for the latest release.
• Use the downloaded dmg to install the application.
• Sign in to the zcw workspace.

• Visit gmail.com and create an account.

• Visit github.com and signup for an account.

Using terminal, type:

grep --version 

You should recieve a response similar to:

grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD

We want to be able to use PCRE for this week's labs so we will be using GNU grep istead of the already installed BSD grep.

brew install grep

Validate install was successful:

ggrep --version

Should yield a result similar to:

ggrep (GNU grep) 3.4
...

• Visit Postman's download page.
• Download the latest version (zip).
• Drag and drop the application to the /Applications folder.

• Visit Installing the AWS CLI version 2 on macOS
• Follow the guide to install and confirm installation.

• Visit Docker's Get Started With Docker page.
• Register for an account.
• Download and install the docker for desktop app.
• Sign in to the docker for desktop app using your docker account.