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You have to start someplace, and the traditional place to start is with "Hello, World". To accomplish this first task you will need the following items: * World of Warcraft (referred to as "WoW") installed * An editor that can work with and save pure text. On a Macintosh system, you would use Finder; and on Linux there is a similar mechanism. Whatever you use, you are looking for the installed location for WoW. This is usually at "/Applications/World of Warcraft/" on a Macintosh. Now go ahead and do these steps:

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abstract	You have to start someplace, and the traditional place to start is with "Hello, World". To accomplish this first task you will need the following items: * World of Warcraft (referred to as "WoW") installed * An editor that can work with and save pure text. An AddOn lives in a very specific place. To find that place, first go to the WoW directory (also sometimes called a folder) using whatever file management software you have available. On a Windows platform, that would be Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). The program is usually installed on the C: drive of the computer, under the directory's named "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" (on well supported 64-bit OSes like Windows 7). From pretty much any address bar, simply type "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft" (or "C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft") and press enter. On a Macintosh system, you would use Finder; and on Linux there is a similar mechanism. Whatever you use, you are looking for the installed location for WoW. This is usually at "/Applications/World of Warcraft/" on a Macintosh. Once you find the WoW directory, there is another directory called Interface and within that is another called AddOns. AddOns is the home of all AddOns in WoW. Each AddOn has its own directory under the AddOns directory. Now go ahead and do these steps: * Create a directory for your AddOn named "HelloWorld" * Create three files named: HelloWorld.toc, HelloWorld.lua, HelloWorld.xml Note that the only difference in the names is the suffix. These denote, in order, Table of Contents, the Lua code file, and the XML user interface visual elements file. The name of your AddOn directory and the name on the .toc file must match. Now to put something into each of these files, and this is where the editor that works with text files comes in. The files must be saved as text, not as some document format. Notepad is a pure text editor, but it is very limited. There are many out there, some of which can help with your programming efforts by understanding the syntax of the Lua language (more on that later). A favorite text editor is UltraEdit (not free, but cross-platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux). For additional Lua Editors check out the additional Lua editors page, with which Notepad++ (MS Windows only) is highly recommended; it comes with all the basic features of Notepad along with more advanced features for progressed programmers including syntax highlighting for LUA.

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