Setup

If you have not completed Chapter 2, Developing a Retirement Calculator, then you can check out the retirement calculator project at GitHub. If you are not already familiar with Git, I would advise that you read the documents at https://guides.github.com/introduction/git-handbook/ first.

To begin the setup, go through the following steps:

1. Create an account at https://github.com/ if you do not have one already.
2. Go to the retirement calculator project at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Scala-Programming-Projects. Click on Fork in the top-right corner to fork the project into your account.
3. Once the project is forked, click on Clone or download, and copy the URL into the clipboard.
4. In IntelliJ, go to File | New | Project from Version Control | GitHub and make the following edits:
   • Git repository URL: Paste the URL of your forked repository
   • Parent directory: Choose a location
   • Directory name: Keep retirement_calculator
   • Click on Clone
5. The project should be imported in IntelliJ. Click on git: master in the bottom-right of the screen and select Remote branches | origin/chapter2 | Checkout as new local branch. Name the new branch chapter3_yourusername to distinguish it from the final solution, which is in the origin/chapter3 branch.
6. Build the project with Ctrl + F9. Everything should compile.