In this series of videos we 'll be going over the basics of Python
programming. I get a lot of messages from people who say that
they enjoy my Python videos, but that they 're either just
getting started out in programming or coming from another
language and would like a beginner 's overview of Python so
that they can better understand the more advanced topics. we
're going to learn how to install Python and set up our
development environment. we 're just going to agree to some
terms. You can change the install location if you want i 'm just
leaving that as default. that it already detected that we 're on
a mac and has offered up Python 3 or Python 2 and you want
to go with the latest version Python 3. 6 so that's going to
download a PkG file and we will click on. This to go ahead and
start the installation. once that 's finished installing it will place
a Python [UNK] directory in your applications folder. Python 3 is
what allows the Python 3 command to work so we 'll move
down here below to the bottom and add an alias. Not to do this
all we have to do is say alias Python equals Python 3 and you
want to make sure it looks exactly like this no space between
the equals or anything like that so now to save this. We can
just hit Ctrl x to close hit y that to say that we want to save it
and then hit enter to keep that same name.
So let 's go ahead and run this download and we should get
this popup. add Python 3 6 to your path will allow the Python
command to work within the command prompt. the interactive
prompt allows us to write one line of Python at a time. So, for
example, for a hello world application. to create a Python file.
We 're going to need some kind of plain text editor. When we
downloaded Python it came with an editor called idle So let 's
open up that idle program so again on Windows that 's in the
Python 3 6 folder that we opened up earlier and on the mac. It
's just down here and our applications and we can go ahead
and open this up so I 'm going ahead and make the font a little
bit bigger here by going to my preferences just so that.
Everyone can see. you do n't need anything fancy to run these
Python scripts, so if you wanted to, then you could follow
through all of my videos using this idle application like we have
running here and then running the script from the command
line.. If you plan on doing a lot of Python programming, then
you 'll likely want to upgrade to a better editor. Now you can
use any kind of plain text text text editor that you want..
programming. I get a lot of messages from people who say that
they enjoy my Python videos, but that they 're either just
getting started out in programming or coming from another
language and would like a beginner 's overview of Python so
that they can better understand the more advanced topics. we
're going to learn how to install Python and set up our
development environment. we 're just going to agree to some
terms. You can change the install location if you want i 'm just
leaving that as default. that it already detected that we 're on
a mac and has offered up Python 3 or Python 2 and you want
to go with the latest version Python 3. 6 so that's going to
download a PkG file and we will click on. This to go ahead and
start the installation. once that 's finished installing it will place
a Python [UNK] directory in your applications folder. Python 3 is
what allows the Python 3 command to work so we 'll move
down here below to the bottom and add an alias. Not to do this
all we have to do is say alias Python equals Python 3 and you
want to make sure it looks exactly like this no space between
the equals or anything like that so now to save this. We can
just hit Ctrl x to close hit y that to say that we want to save it
and then hit enter to keep that same name.
So let 's go ahead and run this download and we should get
this popup. add Python 3 6 to your path will allow the Python
command to work within the command prompt. the interactive
prompt allows us to write one line of Python at a time. So, for
example, for a hello world application. to create a Python file.
We 're going to need some kind of plain text editor. When we
downloaded Python it came with an editor called idle So let 's
open up that idle program so again on Windows that 's in the
Python 3 6 folder that we opened up earlier and on the mac. It
's just down here and our applications and we can go ahead
and open this up so I 'm going ahead and make the font a little
bit bigger here by going to my preferences just so that.
Everyone can see. you do n't need anything fancy to run these
Python scripts, so if you wanted to, then you could follow
through all of my videos using this idle application like we have
running here and then running the script from the command
line.. If you plan on doing a lot of Python programming, then
you 'll likely want to upgrade to a better editor. Now you can
use any kind of plain text text text editor that you want..
