Setting Up Your Development Environment - Windows

Prerequisites to many in- and out-of-class activities, specifically for students running Windows.

Random Windows Tools

Software

  1. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is great for streaming or screen recording.
  2. Clipboard history
    • omfg, i can’t believe it’s finally built in now y’all. Back in my day we had to trust a third party for this, y’all don’t know how good you have it!

Hotkeys

So in the video I mentioned some hotkeys… here’s the ones I mentioned there or that I remembered later to add to this list after using them in class.

Open Explorer (a file/folder browsing jobber)
Win+E
Put caret in address bar (keeping hands on the keys, focus the address bar of the currently focused app, e.g. the aforementioned Windows Explorer, Firefox, etc.)
Ctrl+L
Show the Desktop
Win+D
Open Task Manager
Ctrl+Shift+Esc
Switch between open windows
Alt+Tab