Peter: Created page with "'''WELCOME!''' This is your new way of working the web!- from the very comfort of your own home! ....just like I've been doing for years and years == NetBeans == The very first thing I want to know- to pick up on what I'd promised you last time!- is how are we going to get NetBeans running on your computer! === You are going to need two bits of software === * First, you need a respectable version of Oracle's Java Development Kit loaded onto your compute..."

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Created page with "'''WELCOME!''' This is your new way of working the web!- from the very comfort of your own home! ....just like I've been doing for years and years == NetBeans == The very first thing I want to know- to pick up on what I'd promised you last time!- is how are we going to get NetBeans running on your computer! === You are going to need two bits of software === * First, you need a respectable version of Oracle's Java Development Kit loaded onto your compute..."

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'''WELCOME!'''

This is your new way of working the web!- from the very comfort of your own home! ....just like I've been doing for years and years

== NetBeans ==

The very first thing I want to know- to pick up on what I'd promised you last time!- is how are we going to get [[NetBeans]] running on your computer!

=== You are going to need two bits of software ===

* First, you need a respectable version of Oracle's [[java|Java Development Kit]] loaded onto your computer. A version called, "release 8 update 241" would be a good start. The Windows 64 bit download is 211 MB
* Secondly, after you have JDK installed on your computer, we need to get Apache's [[NetBeans]] up and running! The one I'll point you to is a 112 MB download

Once all this is done- with a few relevant updates that are pretty much automatic!- this will have cost you a total of more than 323 MB of data!

=== Slow Internet ===

Does anyone know why the Internet is so slow at the moment? Well, here's a bit of reading for you....

[https://www.businessinsider.co.za/wacs-undersea-internet-cable-is-broken-again-2020-3 SAs slow internet update: cable repair ship is underway, break could be fixed 4 April]

Let's not panic! If we can't get your [[NetBeans]] working this week, we'll simply carry on working in [[Notepad]] for now!

== You have a choice ==

* IF you cannot get [[NetBeans]] working on your computer (for whatever reason, such as high data costs for example!), then you will need to have at least [[FileZilla]] installed onto your computer! If you remember correctly, the [[FileZilla]] download isn't even 8 MB!
* But if you can get [[NetBeans]] working, well ...then you no longer need [[FileZilla]]!- simply because there is a FTP engine built into the heart of [[NetBeans]]!- that does all the file uploading and/or downloading you'll need to work on your website!

=== Brackets ===

If you can't get [[NetBeans]] running, or would prefer something a bit smaller, [[Black]] is ready to show you how to use [[Brackets]] as an option! This is the code editor that [[Black]] worked on last year and it's only about 80 MB to download. It's not as powerful as [[NetBeans]] and it does not have a build in FTP engine, but it gets the job done better than [[Notepad]] does!

=== FileZilla ===

You're going to need something to do all the FTP work I have ahead of you!- and I've given you plenty of time to work on [[FileZilla]]! Even though [[NetBeans]] can do its own [[FTP]] work [[FileZilla]] is still a useful program to have.

I've given you enough to think about for now!

== Next steps ==

Be sure to read all this carefully to get a good feel of what I'm talking about. And before you ask, no, I'm not giving you any links yet!- first I want to hear from you

Once we've all spoken about this a bit, I'll start working though all the detail with you, starting with a recap on why we are talking about things like [[NetBeans]] and [[Brackets]], compared to [[Notepad]]

== Notes ==

IMPORTANT : Do not try to install this software on you own. Talk to me, to help you get this right. If you mess up your computer now, it's going to be a bit of a pest getting you up and running again! ....so let's not rush anything.

All I want to do is talk you through a few things. It's actually really easy to get all this software loaded- you have had a taste of this already, when I got you to install [[FileZilla]] on the computers on campus

Before I give you link to fetch the installation file, be sure to let me know if you have any [[data consumption|data issues]]!- so that we can work something out.

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