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All righty.

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So we've spent a healthy amount of time talking about the higher level things, kind of setting the

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stage for this course.

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Why should you care about databases, what our database is, what's my SQL?

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Where does that fit in?

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What SQL and so on.

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Now it's actually time for us to really get going, so hopefully that's a little bit exciting.

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Unfortunately, the first thing we have to do is install the tools, install my SQL on your computers.

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So I want to add a note really early on, which is that in my experience, installing anything can be

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a pain.

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And that's true for someone who is an experienced developer all the way down to a complete beginner.

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It's always a potential point of friction where things can go wrong and nothing is more frustrating

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than being excited to do something, being excited to learn something new and then have it not work

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or have to spend hours trying to figure out why it's not installed correctly and what's going on.

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In my opinion, it's one of the worst parts of being a developer.

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And then also in my experience teaching, I've seen a lot of people get discouraged really quickly when

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something doesn't work out.

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If you're unable to install my SQL, when you want to learn my SQL, it might just send you in a different

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direction and you might end up learning another database like SQL Light that doesn't require as much

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setup and that's easier to install.

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So we don't want that to happen.

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Nothing against SQL, but this is not a course on SQL Light, so I just wanted to put that out there

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that keep in mind, installing can be a pain, but I'm going to do my best to try and make it painless.

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So we have three options.

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The first one for installation is to install it on a PC.

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So if you have a PC, if you're a Windows user, you can follow those instructions.

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The next option, as you probably guessed, is that you can install it on a mac.

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So if you're following along using a mac, this would be a good choice for you.

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But there's also a third option, which is to install it using a service called Cloud nine.

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So if you've taken my other course, you may be familiar with Cloud nine.

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It's basically an online interactive development environment.

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In just a couple of videos, I'll go into some more detail about it.

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And before we go any further, I just want to highlight that installing using Cloud nine is without

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a doubt the best and easiest way to get started.

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And it's what I recommend that you use, which is why I spent so much time drawing this little box around

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it install on cloud nine.

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So why is that?

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Why do I recommend that you use cloud nine?

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There's a couple of reasons.

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The first is that it's what I'll be using in the course.

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So rather than doing everything on a mac and confusing the windows people or doing everything on a PC

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and confusing people on a mac, I'm going to use cloud nine, which is something that anybody can use

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regardless of the type of machine that you own, how old it is, how much ram you have, what operating

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system, that doesn't matter.

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It levels the playing field.

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So because I'll be using it in the course, I think it makes it a lot easier for you to follow along.

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Now, if you're someone who's pretty confident as a developer, of course, feel free to install it

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however you'd like.

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But I highly, highly recommend that you use Cloud nine at least early on, because you'll be able to

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follow along much, much easier.

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And the second reason, equally important, is that it's way easier for you to get help if something

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goes wrong, if you're doing a project or an exercise and something doesn't seem to be working the way

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you expect or you hit a bug or you're just not sure what you did wrong, you can easily share a link

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to your environment through Cloud nine and post that on our discussion boards, and either me or one

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of the Tas can help you out, so it's way easier for you to get help if you were just working on your

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PC or Mac and you're trying to explain what's wrong, you're going to have to take some screenshots.

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You're going to have to upload them.

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You might have to copy and paste some stuff from your terminal, but if you use cloud nine and I'll

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show you this when we talk about Cloud nine in more depth, you can just take the link of your workspace

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and share that.

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And anyone will be able to look at your code and diagnose a problem.

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And the third reason that I didn't write down, and this is a really important one, is that installation

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is basically painless.

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You have to sign up for an account, and that's about the worst part.

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Once you're past that, it's one command to get my SQL working, which is pretty amazing.

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So with all of that said, this is my recommendation or prescription for how you should go about this

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course.

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Use Cloud nine to follow along throughout the course.

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So everything that I do and cloud nine, you'll be able to replicate yourself in cloud nine.

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And then once we finish the course, you can return back to the installation instructions and then install

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it on your Mac or your PC natively.

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So I'll talk about what that means.

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What's the difference between installing natively versus cloud nine when we talk more about Cloud nine

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in just a little bit?

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So that's my recommendation.

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I highly, highly recommend that you start with Cloud nine and then later on, if you'd like, move

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to working on your PC or your Mac.

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All right.

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So enough about that.

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Let's get down to business.