Download IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and install. In case you already have it installed and your license has expired, we will provide you a valid license for the duration of the course. In case you prefer using another IDE, that's also fine as the examples do not make use of any IDE specific functionality.
- Download the .exe file and install the latest LTS version of Liberica JDK LTS (use only the LTS version, not the "Current" version). Then create an environmental variable named JAVA_HOME pointing to JDK installation folder.
- Download Maven and follow the instructions. Through Maven dependency management mechanism, we will download every library needed in our projects. Create then an environmental variable named MVN_HOME pointing to Maven's installation folder.
- Add %JAVA_HOME%\bin and %MVN_HOME%\bin to your PATH envrionmental variable.
- Please follow the instructions here to install Microsoft SQL Server.
- Download and install Git Version Control.
- Create a Github account.