#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Michael's tool's and setup
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Michael here.
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It's time to show you how I set up the tools
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when I'm writing code.
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Now, I'm going to be using a Mac,
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Mac OS High Sierra for this course.
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That's the latest at the time of the recording.
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However, you can use Windows, you can use Linux.
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They're all basically the same as far as that goes.
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I'm going to be using the editor PyCharm
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and I'm going to be using Python,
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the one that I got from python.org
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not installed any other way.
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So let's see how that goes.
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First off, when you're on a Mac if you've taken no actions
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you don't have Python 3.
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You'll know if you open up your terminal.
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Come over here and type python3 -V
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and you would get the same error
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something like python3 not found
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as if there's a python4.
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Someday, maybe, not right now.
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So if you type python3 -V
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not lowercase v and you get not found
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you need to install it.
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If you get something like, 3.5 or above,
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you're fine, you're done with Python.
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All you got to do is come over here, go to downloads,
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download right now the latest is 3.6.4.
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So download that, it gives you an installer.
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Run the installer; you're good to go.
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The other tool that I use a lot is something called PyCharm.
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It's an editor for Python.
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One of the richest and most powerful editors.
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And I really think it's great both for beginners
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and for professional developers.
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And it comes in two versions.
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You can see the full fledge Professional
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or the Community Edition.
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So you can download the Professional
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or the Community Edition.
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The Professional one costs money.
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You can pay for it monthly or you can buy a license.
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Whatever, it's like about eight or nine dollars a month.
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You can get the Community Edition.
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It's free and open source, okay.
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This also comes with a month long free trial
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so you can try it.
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If you care about the features,
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say which one comes in which, you can compare them
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down here at the bottom under choose your edition.
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So it's up to you which one you get.
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So we can come down here and download this and install it.
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One thing that's cool that you might consider getting
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is this Toolbox App.
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This one will sort of keep track of updates for you.
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It looks like this and it gives you access to
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all of the tools that JetBrains has.
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So if you're going to install more than one,
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this might be handy but you don't have to get it.
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Either way, get either PyCharm Pro or Community Edition
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or get this JetBrains Toolbox which I have up here.
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You can see apparently there's an update
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for my PyCharm Professional.
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If I want a data grip, I can just click that and install it.
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Once you have it you can run PyCharm
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and you'll be able to start creating
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and editing Python projects.
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That's it, I don't really have anything else
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installed for working with the code.
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It's just Python, my OS, and PyCharm and we're good to go.
