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# Welcome & Pre-work

By
Travis Horn

Before the first lecture began, Matthew from IOG notified us of the following.

The education team collected a Starter Pack for setting up Plutus development environments, made up of resources maintained by IO, CF, and the Plutus community respectively

Because Plutus is a new language, this task is a learning exercise in its own right, and we expect it to take at least the first week for everyone to get up to speed. We encourage you to get a head start now, and assist other Pioneers as you go. Some of you have already begun

# Plutus Env: Setup Starter Pack

Matthew linked us the Plutus Env: Setup Starter Pack .

In that document, it describes various ways to get started. It mentions that the easiest way to get started is by using the online playground . It says that the online playground is kept up-to-date.

However, none of us in the 3rd cohort were able to get the online playground to work. It seems that something broke a while back and it has not been fixed for a while.

Shortly after, a new announcement was made stating that the online playground was broken with no timeline on a fix.

So the only option left is to set up a local Plutus development environment. For that, IOG provided many resources:

Much of the resources have issues for us in the 3rd cohort. Instructions are usually for old lectures and reference out-of-date code repositories and commands. Some of the resources are too high level and don't give any information about specifically setting up a local environment.

Ultimately, I used the instructions in Plutus Apps Repository. The process was not as straightforward as the instructions make it seem. I ran into some pitfalls. However, this is the canonical code repository and what the actual development team at IOG uses.

I wrote a document detailing all of the steps I did to [run plutus playground