Setting Up Your Development Environment - Windows
Prerequisites to many in- and out-of-class activities, specifically for students running Windows.
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less than a minute
Random Windows Tools
Software
- Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is great for streaming or screen recording.
- 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