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== Goal #1: install an IRC client ==
 
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* [[/OSX IRC|OS X]]
* [[/Linux IRC|Linux]]
 
If you are having trouble and want to access IRC to help troubleshoot, you can use [http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=&channels=openhatch webchat].
 
== Goal #2: practice navigating from the command line ==
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* [[/Linux git|Linux]]
 
== Goal #4: practiceSign usingup afor plainGitHub text editor==
 
To do this, visit [https://github.com/ GitHub] and make an account. They will send you a confirmation email which you will have to click on.
Make sure you know how to use a plain text editor. If you don't have experience using one of those, ask an instructor for help installing one.
 
== Goal #5: practice using a plain text editor==
Our suggestions:
 
Make sure you know how to use a plain text editor. If you don't have experience using one of those, ask an instructor for help installing one.
 
Our suggestion is [https://code.visualstudio.com/ Visual Studio Code] for Linux, Windows, and OS X.
* gedit on Linux
* Notepad++ on Windows
* Smultron on OS X ([http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/smultron/smultron/3.6b1/Smultron-3.6b1.zip download])
 
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