Setup Windows for coding
Setup Windows for Developers
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Microsoft Windows, commonly referred to as Windows, is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families, all of which are developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. Active Microsoft Windows families include Windows NT and Windows IoT; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows Server or Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE). Defunct Microsoft Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
This guide is written for Windows 10 version but can be used as a starting point for older versions of Windows.
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).
- the official page
- documentation
It is highly unlikely that your Windows system shipped with Python already installed. Fortunately, installing does not involve much more than downloading the Python installer from the python.org website and running it. Let’s take a look at how to install Python3 on Windows:
Access the
Click on the installer that matches your operating system version 32b or 64b
Run the installer and mark the option that includes Python executable to your PATH variable (image credit: RealPython )
If the installation goes well, test the Python execution from the terminal:
Download the installer
Execute the installer, using the default options
Test the installation by typing git
For more information about Git please access:
Node.js is a run-time environment that includes everything you need to execute a program written in JavaScript. It’s used for running scripts on the server to render content before it is delivered to a web browser. NPM stands for Node Package Manager, which is an application and repository for developing and sharing JavaScript code.
Download the installer
Execute the installer, and choosing the default options should be enough to have a successfull installation:
To install Git on Windows you will need to download the installer from the website:
In a web browser, navigate to . Click the Windows Installer button to download the latest default version. At the time this article was written, version 10.16.0-x64 was the latest version. The Node.js installer includes the NPM package manager.