Effective PyCharm Transcripts
Chapter: Course setup
Lecture: Windows setup
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Are you using Windows for this course? Well, let's get you set up so you're ready to follow along and do all the exercises.
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The first thing you're going to need to do is make sure that you have Python installed. Now, Windows doesn't come with Python,
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if you're taking this course, it's about Python, you may already have it, but if you don't, you absolutely have to download it,
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and this course is based on Python 3, so make sure you have Python 3 installed as well. You might have Python 2, but that's probably not good enough,
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I'm sure it's not good enough. So you can check, come over here in your command prompt and you can type something like Python-V
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or you can ask where Python, that also might give you a hint, okay, so that's Python 3.6 and then somewhere below that, we have Python 3.5,
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so apparently I have those two versions of Python on my system, I haven't installed Python 2.7.
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So you want to make sure that you have Python and that it's at least 3.5 let's say,
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I don't think it needs to be higher than 3.5 for anything we do in this course, but you know, if you don't have 3.6, go and install it,
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you notice that this is a slightly bit out of date, maybe I'll install the update after this as well, there is as we saw right here 3.6.4.
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So that's Python, how about PyCharm? Well, in order to get PyCharm, we can just go to jetbrains.com/pycharm and download it
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and that's the most obvious thing, but it might not be the best thing, let's go through this path and just see real quick.
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So we go to download and there's actually a choice of two types you have to make sure you use the professional edition,
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things like the web development tools, the database tools, some various other things that we're going to be using,
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they don't exist in the community edition, so you can get the free trial for the pro version, whatever but go and download that and when you do,
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you'll see that it's just a standard msi installer, just next, next, next, yes, next through it and you'll be all good,
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I'm not going to do that, I already have it installed, but also notice down here, it says get the Toolbox app to download updates
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so the Toolbox app is pretty sweet and this is what I've started using so what it is, is you can buy a subscription to many of the Jetbrains tools
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and this Toolbox app will let you manage it, I've already downloaded and installed it and it's right here.
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So notice that I have a couple of things installed, I have PyCharm professional and I have resharper for Visual Studio
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also installed for the times I got to do some C# so down here maybe I need to use DataGrip
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or I want to go and use, we'll talk a lot about WebStorm in this course maybe I want to install WebStorm, so I can just click install
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and it will automatically install it, set it up to be registered to me, things like that.
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So I actually really like this, you can even set it to auto update your app, just in the background, so you always have the latest version.
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If you want to get more than one of the Jetbrains tools, I'd take it with the Toolbox, otherwise maybe just install it directly.
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Do Python first, make sure you have Python 3, run the installer for PyCharm, you will be ready to go
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there's nothing else in this course that you need in order to take it, just Python 3 and PyCharm.