This post explores what it takes to set up an environment for writing a simple FunScript application from scratch using a non-Visual Studio environment. It’s targetted at the beginner, using a step-by-step process that tries to remove a few stumbling blocks I encountered when trying to do the FunScript tutorial without using an example solution. The dev environment is Xamarin Studio (version 5.9.8) running on a Mac. If you’d like to see other environments, let me know in the comments.