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### Setting up your development environment
You can set it up in one or two ways. You either set it up on your own PC or through SSH on the common computer fetdatorn. You can also do both.
The easiest and fastest way to get started is to set up your environment in VS Code, you can go to [this page.](Set-Up-Remote-Development-Using-VS-Code).
The easiest and fastest way to get started is to set up your environment in VS Code through SSH on fetdatorn, you can go to [this page](Set-Up-Remote-Development-Using-VS-Code).
For more information, look through the general README.md and INSTALL.md in the main repository to just get a grasp of the environment, no need to do anything with it.
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- [ ] Install an integrated development environment of your choice. We recommend using VS Code which you can install from [here](https://code.visualstudio.com/). It is free and has excellent remote development opportunities and compatibilities.
#### Through SSH on fetdatorn
- [ ] Simply open a terminal if you are using Linux, or install an SSH client such as [Putty](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) on Windows and connect to fetdatorn according to [here](SSH-Tunnel-Settings])
When being connected to SSH you will not have a graphical GUI. You'll hack around in vim, nano, or emacs as a text editor, so if you opt for this, look up some cheat sheets on those programs and become a guru.
- [ ] Simply open a terminal if you are using Linux, or install an SSH client such as [Putty](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) on Windows and connect to fetdatorn according to [here](SSH-Tunnel-Settings])
### Get up to par with Git
Git is used for source version control and is the basis for cooperation with code (and now, pretty much any files with concepts such as Git-For-Everything!). You can read about Git [here](https://git-scm.com/).
The most used commands are
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