Introducing the Course

Windows Recommendations

Local Servers

• WAMP - Free
• XAMPP - Free
• Note: Please be sure you're running PHP 5.6 for maximum compatibility with the class, rather than PHP 7. But the same concepts will apply to both.

Code Editors

• Notepad++ - Free
• RapidPHP
• HTML-Kit 292 - Free

FTP

• FileZilla - Free
• SmartFTP - Free

Mac Recommendations

Local Servers

• MAMP - Free and Pro versions available
• XAMPP - Free

Code Editors

• TextWrangler Free
• BBEdit - Same company - ($49.00)
• Coda - ($75.00)

FTP

• CyberDuck - Free
• FileZilla - Free