My experience with setting up my programming environment was kind of messy. Here is why:
First, I use Windows as my operating system, so I looked for Cygwin and installed it from its webpage (https://www.cygwin.com/). I had not trouble doing that. The problem started when I had to select the packages. I knew I had to installl gcc-g++ and make, but the problem was that at first I couldn’t find them because I did’t know how to look for them, so what I did was to look for help on the Internet; thus, I found this page to help me: http://cs.calvin.edu/curriculum/cs/112/resources/installingEclipse/cygwin/.
You might wonder why I said at first that it was messy because all I had to do was download it and then follow the instructions from a webpage, and that sounds easy. I thought so too. Also, I thought I was finished when I did the second step of installing Atom (https://atom.io/). However, that wasn’t the case. I don’t why, but the packages of Cygwin weren’t installed on my computer when I tried to run it, so I had to install Cygwin again. For that, I watched Ken’s tutorial on how to install Cygwin (https://youtu.be/i2h_976SpV0), I followed every single instruction, and finally, my programming environment was finally correctly set up!
And this is how I felt when I had to install the packages:
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WSQ01 – SETTING UP C++ by Ana Gloria Angulo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.