#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Julian's setup
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'Kay, guys. This is Julian here,
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and I just wanted to quickly walk you through my environment
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for the duration of the course.
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There's actually not much to it, and that's because
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I'm using Windows, and I really wanted to keep it simple.
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Okay, I wanted to show that you don't need to use
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anything crazy.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that,
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but pretty much bare-bones on Windows, you're able to
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code anything you want and just get into it, okay.
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So the first thing you're going to need to do
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is go and download Python.
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And you can do that at python.org/downloads. Okay.
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And it will detect you're on Windows if you using Windows,
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and you can download Python 3.6.4,
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the current latest version, and install it.
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It's just an Microsoft installer file.
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It will install to a default path.
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You don't have to change anything.
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Don't worry about it.
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Nice and simple.
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And once you're done, you can actually just launch IDLE.
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Okay, that's I-D-L-E. Right?
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You type that into your Windows search, and that will
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actually bring it up into the Start menu. Right?
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Once that's up, you'll see something that
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looks similar to this, the Python shell,
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which you can just type in Python code.
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Okay? And you can live code just like that.
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This is the Python shell.
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Now with IDLE, this Integrated Development Environment,
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okay, that's what IDLE stands for:
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Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
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With that, you can actually create a Python file.
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Okay. This is actually going to be pretty much a
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plain text file, but when you save it,
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it will automatically save it as a .py file.
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So your Python file.
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That's what I like about using IDLE.
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I never have to worry about accidentally
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using the wrong format.
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Okay? And other than that, you've seen some of my videos
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that I run my scripts through the command prompt.
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Okay? There's my path to my environment,
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to where I'm storing everything for this course,
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and I will just run the scripts straight from there
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using the Python command.
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And that is pretty much the bulk of my setup.
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You won't see anything else.
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You won't see anything different.
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That's it, okay?
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So standard command prompt on Windows.
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I don't even use PowerShell.
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I've go the Python shell here, and I just save the files
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using the new document section of the Python IDLE.
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And that's pretty much it.
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So, I say keep it simple.
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One day I probably will make the move to PyCharm
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or something, but for now, I'm happy with this.
