1 00:00:00,630 --> 00:00:05,970 OK, everybody, so this is going to be a pretty big tutorial. 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:11,280 I'm just going to drop a lot of information on you, and I'm not apologize in advance about that. 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:19,380 But the thing is is that we need to make sure that everyone can get up and running with everything that 4 00:00:19,380 --> 00:00:23,830 they need to start programming in C++ for this course. 5 00:00:24,630 --> 00:00:30,330 And that means doing a decent amount of stuff, especially for windows. 6 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:39,690 So if you already have C++ installed, which by that I mean a C++ compiler, then of course you don't 7 00:00:39,690 --> 00:00:42,360 need to worry about this section here. 8 00:00:43,230 --> 00:00:48,120 But I'm kind of going to have to drop a lot of knowledge on you. 9 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:54,990 In a short video, I will try and explain things as much as I can, but they won't really be that important. 10 00:00:55,010 --> 00:01:01,560 It's just kind of like, follow the steps so you can prepare yourself to be able to start writing code 11 00:01:01,950 --> 00:01:02,820 in this course. 12 00:01:03,390 --> 00:01:07,170 So with that said, I'm going to do it in a certain way. 13 00:01:07,170 --> 00:01:16,020 I'm going to install a specific compiler, which will be a Windows ported version of the new compiler 14 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:18,270 collection, which is very popular. 15 00:01:18,870 --> 00:01:24,840 I'm also going to have a video if you have Mac or Linux for this, which is a little easier because 16 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,260 you kind of already have some of the necessary tools that you need installed. 17 00:01:29,610 --> 00:01:36,060 But on windows, you need to kind of set something up so you can write C++ code. 18 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:43,530 You might already have an editor that you just want to download that will have a compiler for you. 19 00:01:44,220 --> 00:01:50,700 For example, much of this class is going to be taught using something called sea lion, which is this 20 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:52,080 icon right here. 21 00:01:52,830 --> 00:01:58,950 That is an integrated development environment, which I will be talking about more later. 22 00:01:59,250 --> 00:02:00,800 It has a lot of tools. 23 00:02:00,810 --> 00:02:07,980 It's very fancy, but I want to make sure that everyone has the ability to follow through with this 24 00:02:07,980 --> 00:02:12,090 course if they maybe don't want to download Sea Lion. 25 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:22,050 Sea Lion may or may not be free for you to download, depending on your situation, whether you're a 26 00:02:22,050 --> 00:02:24,270 student or not. 27 00:02:25,590 --> 00:02:28,710 So I don't want to force everyone down that path. 28 00:02:28,710 --> 00:02:34,360 I want you to be able to use whatever editing environment you would like. 29 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:37,290 And so we're going to go over various types of those. 30 00:02:38,370 --> 00:02:42,360 So, for example, this icon here is a visual studio code. 31 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:51,900 I also have this access to the command line prompt here, but it also can just be searched here to bring 32 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:52,620 that up as well. 33 00:02:52,650 --> 00:02:55,800 That has an editor inside of it as well a basic editor. 34 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,080 So we're going to be looking at multiple editors. 35 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,180 We'll look at Visual Studio Code, which is just a really nice text editor. 36 00:03:03,330 --> 00:03:10,740 It's a graphical we'll look at command line based editors and we'll, of course, look at a big integrated 37 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:11,710 development environment. 38 00:03:11,820 --> 00:03:18,840 So I'm going to go over all of those, and this video is going to be mainly about installing a C++ compiler. 39 00:03:19,770 --> 00:03:29,940 So remember, we talked very briefly about how we take the code and get it to run on the computer. 40 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:35,830 I kind of have those three little squares on that one slide. 41 00:03:36,750 --> 00:03:42,360 In the past where I showed, OK, you can write it kind of like you would in a text document or something, 42 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:49,830 and then you use a compiler or interpreter to convert the code into something the computer can understand. 43 00:03:50,250 --> 00:03:52,020 And then after that, you can run the code. 44 00:03:52,470 --> 00:03:55,520 So that middle part is what we're focusing on today. 45 00:03:55,530 --> 00:04:02,880 We're just trying to get our computers set up with a compiler so we can translate the code that we write 46 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:05,760 into something that the computer can understand. 47 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:08,760 So enough babbling and stuff. 48 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,750 While you look at my blank computer screen, let's get started on this. 49 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,230 I'm going to open up a browser. 50 00:04:15,930 --> 00:04:24,810 And what I'm willing to do is head to something called men GW, so I'm going to search that here, and 51 00:04:24,810 --> 00:04:33,120 the top result here is a SourceForge dot net place where I can download this many GW compiler, which 52 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,890 you see is the minimalist Ganiyu for a Windows download. 53 00:04:41,190 --> 00:04:47,100 So once I go to this page, I am just going to go to this download button and you see that when I hover, 54 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:51,900 it says download mind GW get set up ICSI from SourceForge. 55 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:58,710 So that says it's an executable which will basically set up and install and GW for us. 56 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,250 So I am going to click that. 57 00:05:11,570 --> 00:05:13,250 OK, so we have it down here. 58 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,260 I'm going to go ahead and click on this. 59 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,950 That will open this installer right here when I minimize that. 60 00:05:25,070 --> 00:05:29,060 OK, so then what I'm going to do is just click install. 61 00:05:31,340 --> 00:05:33,950 And do not change the installation directory. 62 00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:36,380 Let's just leave it with the defaults, OK? 63 00:05:36,410 --> 00:05:38,300 That way, we don't mess anything up. 64 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:41,810 I just want everyone to be able to have a smooth installation process. 65 00:05:42,740 --> 00:05:46,100 So we're going to just leave all these defaults here. 66 00:05:46,970 --> 00:05:52,700 This also has the command line and graphical options for the user interface here. 67 00:05:52,730 --> 00:05:56,030 I'm just going to leave it like that and kind of get everything. 68 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:05,140 So now we wait as it's connecting and downloading, this may take a little bit. 69 00:06:07,110 --> 00:06:11,940 OK, so now this initial set of part has finished. 70 00:06:12,210 --> 00:06:15,630 So what I'm going to do is just click continue. 71 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:20,910 That brings me to this minging insulation manager pain here. 72 00:06:21,570 --> 00:06:28,020 You notice up here that it offers various packages that we can install and it has the descriptions over 73 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:29,490 here on the right hand side. 74 00:06:31,290 --> 00:06:33,820 So we have this developer tool kit. 75 00:06:34,730 --> 00:06:41,550 We have the basic GW installation at a compiler, Ganiyu Fortran compiler. 76 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:47,070 They're going to use C++ compiler, which is really what we care about eject objective. 77 00:06:47,070 --> 00:06:49,950 See, that's another programming language, just like Fortran. 78 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,100 And then we have this basic Ms Waste installation thing down here, so. 79 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:02,840 I'm actually going to just click on all of these, even though I don't necessarily need the FORTRAN 80 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:09,590 and at an objective see, I'm just going to go ahead and install it all because it won't really take 81 00:07:09,590 --> 00:07:13,340 up too much space on here, so it should be OK. 82 00:07:14,790 --> 00:07:17,310 I'm going to click on this Mark for installation. 83 00:07:20,540 --> 00:07:27,020 Click on this, Mark, for installation works for installation, and just do this for all of this right 84 00:07:27,020 --> 00:07:27,470 here. 85 00:07:29,970 --> 00:07:30,360 OK. 86 00:07:32,510 --> 00:07:32,870 Cool. 87 00:07:33,290 --> 00:07:36,080 So then I'm going to go up here to installation. 88 00:07:37,910 --> 00:07:41,510 And I'm going to say apply changes. 89 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,190 You know, ask if I'm OK to proceed and then I'm going to click apply right here. 90 00:07:50,010 --> 00:07:52,770 And now it's going to go ahead and install these packages. 91 00:07:57,820 --> 00:08:03,430 OK, so I just went ahead and actually closed those dialog boxes there. 92 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:08,620 Once everything was done with the installation, it should say at the top that you can close out of 93 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:15,640 the dialog box so you can just click close and you can actually close out of the main package installer 94 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,740 window and just out of that as well. 95 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:21,160 But unfortunately, we're not completely done yet. 96 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:31,630 We need to do something where we add our location of installation for many GW to our path environment 97 00:08:31,630 --> 00:08:32,110 variable. 98 00:08:32,110 --> 00:08:38,860 So that basically is something that just allows windows to be able to locate main GW. 99 00:08:38,860 --> 00:08:41,470 So that way we could compile our programs from anywhere. 100 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,400 So it needs to be added to our environment variables. 101 00:08:46,030 --> 00:08:49,450 So what I'm going to do first is just verify that installation. 102 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,990 I'm going to go to see slash. 103 00:08:53,110 --> 00:08:58,510 I mean GW, because that's where it was installed and what we're interested in. 104 00:08:58,510 --> 00:09:00,690 Is this right here? 105 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:02,980 So this bin? 106 00:09:03,460 --> 00:09:09,580 So we basically want to I'm going to copy this address here. 107 00:09:12,330 --> 00:09:17,730 We're interested in this folder right here on C and then Mangy W and then been. 108 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:26,290 So then at that point, what we can do is actually go to a search environment, variables on here and 109 00:09:26,290 --> 00:09:29,480 you see this thing pops up, edit the system environment variables. 110 00:09:30,190 --> 00:09:31,450 So I'm going to go there. 111 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,670 This pane pops up right here and I'm going to go down here to environment variables. 112 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,930 And what we're interested in is these system variables. 113 00:09:40,930 --> 00:09:44,230 And more specifically, we're interested in the path variables. 114 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:45,880 So we need to add something to our path. 115 00:09:46,150 --> 00:09:49,870 What we're going to do is edit, ah, path system, environment variable. 116 00:09:51,710 --> 00:09:56,630 And so what we want to do is make a new environment variable. 117 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,250 And this is just going to be. 118 00:10:01,990 --> 00:10:04,580 This thing right here, so you notice I just pasted that. 119 00:10:04,930 --> 00:10:11,650 So it came from the C Drive and then we had many GW folder with the bin folder in it, and I just copy 120 00:10:11,650 --> 00:10:13,120 that back there and paste it. 121 00:10:13,630 --> 00:10:18,310 Otherwise, if you didn't copy that back when I copied it there, you can just type this right here 122 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,730 and then we'll just click OK, and then we will just click, OK. 123 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,630 So we should be good now. 124 00:10:29,110 --> 00:10:38,950 What we want to do now is check to see that it's actually installed, so I have my command prompt right 125 00:10:38,950 --> 00:10:41,110 here pinned to the taskbar. 126 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:47,590 But you, if you don't have that, you can just go here and type CMG and that will bring the command 127 00:10:47,590 --> 00:10:48,040 prompt. 128 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:53,300 I mean, you notice this kind of small here, so I'm just going to click this because I've already edited 129 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:54,220 it to be pretty big. 130 00:10:55,090 --> 00:11:04,660 So what we want to do is actually say, gee, + + + y g + +, because that was that one package that 131 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:13,090 is used to compile C++ programs, you noticed that it said it was a C++ language compiler for that one 132 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:14,170 package down there. 133 00:11:14,410 --> 00:11:16,390 We installed all the packages. 134 00:11:16,750 --> 00:11:25,780 If you wanted to, you could just only install the C++ compiler and kind of the base package, but I 135 00:11:25,780 --> 00:11:27,880 just kind of wanted all of them, so put them all there. 136 00:11:28,540 --> 00:11:33,100 So what we're going to do is check the version by doing G Plus Plus test version. 137 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:41,860 And you notice when we press enter, it shows us G Plus plus min GW dot org GCC, and then it has the 138 00:11:41,860 --> 00:11:43,720 version number right here. 139 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,580 We're dealing with six point 3.0. 140 00:11:47,070 --> 00:11:50,580 Then it just listen to some list, some stuff about the licence and all that. 141 00:11:51,420 --> 00:11:57,420 So yeah, this shows us that we actually have a big plus plus compiler now. 142 00:11:58,770 --> 00:12:00,490 So that's all good. 143 00:12:00,510 --> 00:12:06,870 You have a compiler for a C++ now, and if you checked all those boxes, you also have some. 144 00:12:08,580 --> 00:12:12,780 Tools to deal with other languages like Fortran and Objective-C in all this. 145 00:12:13,350 --> 00:12:16,800 So this was meant to just show Windows users how to install this. 146 00:12:16,980 --> 00:12:18,150 I'm going to stay out of here. 147 00:12:20,610 --> 00:12:25,590 And then now that we have that compiler, we basically can start writing some code for stuff. 148 00:12:25,950 --> 00:12:32,580 So like I said, if you already have an editor like an integrated development environment like Sea Lion 149 00:12:32,580 --> 00:12:36,210 or Visual Studio or something, that's totally fine. 150 00:12:36,210 --> 00:12:40,800 You could just use that and you don't have to use this, but I wanted to make sure everyone had accessibility. 151 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:47,730 So at this point in time, now that we have the compiler, we can write our code in whatever lightweight 152 00:12:47,730 --> 00:12:53,040 text editor that we want or command line based text editor. 153 00:12:54,350 --> 00:13:00,320 And then we'll just be able to compile it from a either built in command line to the editor or from 154 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,670 our actual command line, so that's what we're going to be doing in the near future. 155 00:13:04,670 --> 00:13:12,290 Is writing a simple C++ program, compiling it to make sure that it actually makes a program that can 156 00:13:12,290 --> 00:13:13,610 run on our computer. 157 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,240 And then we will go ahead and see the output of that. 158 00:13:18,020 --> 00:13:20,780 So hopefully there wasn't any issues for you. 159 00:13:20,780 --> 00:13:25,850 I tried to break it down there on like pretty well in detail on how to install this. 160 00:13:27,290 --> 00:13:36,380 And I'm also going to make some videos on how to get it up and running on OSX, which is Mac and various 161 00:13:36,380 --> 00:13:42,140 distributions of Linux, which, you know, those are a lot easier because a lot of them already come 162 00:13:42,140 --> 00:13:46,370 with this new compiler collection on there. 163 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,510 So with that, I will see you in the next lectures.