Make sure you have the following tools installed before working on any of the projects

1. Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition found at bit.ly/vs2017-download

• During your Visual Studio 2017 installation Step 4 - Select workloads make sure you select the following at a minimum (you can select more at the cost of hard drive space)

  • ASP.NET and web development

    

  • .NET Core cross-platform development

    

• If you already installed Visual Studio 2017 and don't remember which Workloads were installed, then search for the Visual Studio Installer on your Windows machine

  

  • Run the Visual Studio Installer and select the Modify button to see all the Workloads that can be installed. Make sure you check and install the two Workloads highlighted above: ASP.NET and web development and .NET Core cross-platform development

    

• Important! Install the following add-ons for Visual Studio 2017, make sure you close Visual Studio 2017 before installing these add-ons

  • Whack Whack Terminal found at bit.ly/whack-terminal
  • Format on Save found at bit.ly/format-onsave

2. Git for windows found a https://git-scm.com/

3. And most importantly, a burning desire to learn C#!