Getting started in the Cardona/Ada space

I've decided to see what I can do to develop my expertise in the Cardona/ADA cryptocurrency.

Cardona (the protocol) plans to be Bitcoin 3.0 with a secure proof of stake algorithm. I have already purchased some ADA (the currency) and now plan to learn more about Cryptocurrency.

My plans to help develop Cardona includes learning how to program in Haskell. Arch Linux seems to be the preferred platform for Cardona development but I'll see what I can do for Windows since I can't install a 64 bit OS as a guest OS on Virtual Box with an Intel i3 2100 processor.

Here is some software to start

Stack for Windows (needed to develop in Haskell):
https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/

Git for Windows (needed to interact with projects from Cardona's github page):
https://git-scm.com/download/win

CygWin:
https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe

Node:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/

xz:
https://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.2.3-windows.zip

To start:

In a command prompt, run:

$ git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-sl.git
$ cd cardano-sl

$ git checkout master

The above lines will clone the Cardona Settlement Layer project onto your system and then siwtch to the master branch of its git branch.


In a command prompt, run:

$ stack setup

The above line will install Haskell


Well before I go further, I posted in reddit for help in running Cardano-SL in Windows:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/7u8xpx/is_it_possible_to_compile_and_then_run_cardanosl/