##Windows users:

• Download wamp: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
• Download and extract cmder mini: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/releases/download/v1.1.4.1/cmder_mini.zip
• Update windows environment variable path to point to your php install folder (inside wamp installation dir) (here is how you can do this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17727436/how-to-properly-set-php-environment-variable-to-run-commands-in-git-bash)

cmder will be refered as console

##Mac Os, Ubuntu and windows users continue here:

• Create a database locally named homestead utf8_general_ci