Welcome to the club.
As said above you don't have to but I would for the time it takes. You can even just disconnect the battery for a few minutes, or if you don't want to loose your radio pre-sets you can disconnect the ECU which can be found just behind the panel above the passenger foot well, to the left of the cigarette lighter. If you don't want to do either of them you can do the pedal dance. (see guides for ecu reset for the pedal method)