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# Basic IT on campus (reminder)
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Within the **TODO welke cursus?** ["Infosite Howest Brugge"](https://leho-howest.instructure.com/courses/14725) course on our learning management platform 'Leho', you'll find basic information about the wireless network, copying, printing, timetables, VPN connection etc.
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# Office 365 Suite
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When receiving a Howest-account you automatically have a **Microsoft Office 365-account** as wel as a **Google-account**.
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To install the Microsoft Office 365 Suite (Word, Excel) through your subscription you can follow the next steps:
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- Go to [office.com](https://wwww.office.com) and login with your Howest email and password
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- Once logged in you can use the **web-based** version of the Microsoft Applications.
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- At the top right there is a button to install the desktop applications as well.
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- Make sure **Microsoft Teams** is installed as we will use this tool a lot!
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- Follow the installation wizard.
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# Browsers
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A **browser** is a piece of software that allows the user to "browse" (= access) files and data on the Internet (or other networks). We suggest having multiple browsers available on your computer. Go ahead and follow the installation wizard.
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## Recommended (at least have these installed)
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- Google Chrome - [Download](https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html)
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- Mozilla Firefox - [Download](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/)
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- Microsoft Edge - [Download](https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/edge)
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# Editors
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An **editor** is a piece of software that allows the user to interact with **text** files. Word from the Office suite is used to create documents with markup and/or images and is **not** considered an editor. The most common example of a very basic editor (on Windows) is notepad. The following pieces of software have increased functionality. We suggest installing at least Visual Studio Code but if you are familiar with the other ones they will suffice for now as well. **You don't need to install all 3 of them. When in doubt pick Visual Studio Code and leave the other ones alone.**
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- Visual Studio Code - [Download](https://code.visualstudio.com/)
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* Accept the agreement
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* Choose installation location (default is ok in most of the cases)
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* You can choose to create a Start Menu folder or not
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* Go ahead and create a Desktop Icon if you want, it is also good to mark all boxes
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* Finish!
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- Sublime Text - [Download](https://www.sublimetext.com/)
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- Notepad++ - [Download](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
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# Jetbrains stack
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## Jetbrains registration
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Go to [https://www.jetbrains.com/shop/eform/students](https://www.jetbrains.com/shop/eform/students) and fill in all the fields of the form:
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- Use your **Howest-email!**
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- Level of study: undergraduate
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- Graduation date: choose september 2025
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You should receive a confirmation mail. You will need your account in future steps. For now you can continue with Git.
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# Git
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## Git itself
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_(Make sure visual studio code is installed before this)_
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**Git** is an extremely powerful piece of software that allows people to work together on code. The official terminology is a **distributed version control system**. We will use this extensively in a lot of different courses.
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Go to [Download](https://git-scm.com/) and download the installer for your operating system (windows/mac/linux). Follow the installation wizard. Choose the defaults unless otherwise specified:
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- **Select Components**: Go ahead and add **additional icons > on the Desktop** if you want
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- Choosing the default editor: Choose Visual Studio Code (unless you know what you are doing and you want something else)
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- Leave all rest **default**
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- Try running ``Git Bash`` by pressing the windows button and searching for it. A black window should open. Try typing ``git``. The output should look like the image below. This is called a command prompt and **we will need it to run commands** (for example in the SSH keys section).
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### Icon when searching for it
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### Black Screen with command "git"
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Next up: go to [SSH Keys](software/SSH-Keys) |
