Setup

Coursera

• follow the link to Programming Languages Part A
• click "Join For Free" in the top right corner.

• do what you need to do to join coursera (and log in, if necessary).

• click on enroll for free

repeat for

• Programming Languages Part B
• Programming Languages Part C

ML

Language: Standard ML of New Jersey

Mac OSX

NOTE: recently, macOS 10.15 Catalina switched the default shell from bash to zsh. As a result, you may need to edit .zshenv instead of .bash_profile. You can alternatively switch your default shell in VS Code to bash.

via homebrew

Windows

download msi installation

Linux

via apt-get or yum

Editor

VS Code (Preferred)

• Download and Install VS Code
• Add Standard ML language support by Darin Morrison

or Sublime Text (Alternate)

• Download and Install Sublime Text

Racket

Language and IDE

• Download and Install Dr. Racket

Ruby

Language

Mac OSX

Nicely, Ruby ships with the Mac standard installation. While it may not be the most up to date version, it may be the best option to simply use your default version: /usr/bin/ruby.

Tk Gem

sudo gem install tk

OS Gem

sudo gem install os

PNG Gem

sudo gem install chunky_png

Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" 

OpenGL Runtime

sudo brew install glfw

OpenGL Gem

sudo gem install opengl-bindings

Windows

Ruby Installer

[Download From RubyInstaller

Ruby+Devkit 2.6.6-1 (x64)

Tk Gem

gem install tk

OS Gem

gem install os

PNG Gem

gem install chunky_png

OpenGL Gem

sudo gem install opengl-bindings

OpenGL Runtime

Download FreeGLUT

Linux

ActiveTcl

Note: you will need to create an account to download ActiveTcl 8.5.

Note: ActiveTcl 8.6 has be known to cause problems.

Download and Install ActiveTcl 8.5

Ruby Language With Tk

A path that has worked on Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

sudo gem install tk -- --with-ActiveTcl

OS Gem

sudo gem install os

PNG Gem

sudo gem install chunky_png

OpenGL Runtime

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev

sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev

OpenGL Gem

sudo gem install opengl-bindings

IDE

• Apply for student status with JetBrains
• Download and Install RubyMine

Java

Language

• Download JDK13
• Install JDK13

IDE

Eclipse

• Download Up To Date Version (2019‑12) of Eclipse
• Install Eclipse (Select Eclipse IDE for Java Developers)

or IntelliJ

• Download and Install IntelliJ IDEA Community

Git Repo

after you have cloned your git repo from bitbucket, be sure to import the pom.xml file in the top-level java folder.