This video, like all the videos in this section on software installation, is
optional, but we put it together because we thought some of you might find it
useful. Basically, before you can get started in the programming languages
course, there are a few pieces of software that we need you to install. And we have
instructions for all of this. So if you go to the webpage and click on the page about
software installation, you'll find a link to this file. Which gives installation
instructions for various different operating systems, different version of
the software and what not. And while its fairly simple to go through it and spend a
few minutes doing it, you may have questions. And we thought it might be
helpful for some of you to have a set of videos where I am literally going to
install the software in front of you while the camera is running. So I don't think
that that's very interesting. In fact I hope these are the least interesting
videos in the entire course, but it might be useful. So the software we're going to
install here in this first set, set of videos is going to take us through the
first few weeks of the course. For later weeks, we need some additional software,
but that actually is a bit easier to install. And as a last note these videos
are all going to be on Windows. The instructions will be a little more, a
little different, a little more complicated for Mac or Linux. But the
instructions do cover those. As we have questions we expect people on the
discussion board will be able to help you.