Effective PyCharm Transcripts
Chapter: Course setup
Lecture: Linux setup
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Let's get your Linux machine all set up and ready to go. We're going to need to do two things,
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install Python or verify or update the version and install PyCharm. Over here on Python.org, you'll see that the latest version is 3.6.4
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and as long you have 16.10 or higher you should have a pretty recent version, I think even 16.04 is pretty good.
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So you come over here and see what version you have, we can say Python3- V we have 3.6.3
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that's the latest you can get on this, I think this is 17.10, I'm sure that it is. So this is pretty much the latest we're going to get
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even though over here we have a slightly later version, this is what ships and that's more than good enough for this course.
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If for some reason you have an old version, I'd say anything 3.5 or higher is totally good, you could do a sudo apt update
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and then see if there is something here for Python, so you see like Python 3 update options here, go ahead and do that,
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obviously updating your system is a good thing but we should have Python stuff already set up and ready to go,
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and Python 3 is what we're using for the course so you going to want to have that. Now, what about PyCharm—
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let's go over here, there are two options for installing PyCharm, one option is we can come over here and we can go straight to the PyCharm page
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and download it, this is one option and notice right away you're hit with a choice for
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something we can either download the pro version or the community edition. Now, community edition is great for a lot of things
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and much what you'll see will work there but many notable features will not exist, the database tooling,
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the web tooling and a number of other ones are going to be missing, so I really recommend you get the professional edition for this course.
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So that works pretty well, but let's try something a little bit slicker, if you're going to have more than one app from Jetbrains
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like say WebStorm and PyCharm, you can subscribe to their entire set of tools, like 20 different applications,
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you can get this thing called the Toolbox app even if you are just using PyCharm, you can use the Toolbox app
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so go and download this and I just did a minute ago, so here it is. So we can go open this up and let's just put it somewhere and get it going,
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so over here, let's make a folder bin and let's extract this thing into it. So we have this thing called Jetbrains Toolbox and let's go over here,
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we need to make this executable, see it's green, not executable, so we want to change mood a + x and then once we do that, we can just run it,
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this comes up and says you want to allow it to send us things like that and over here it says what do you want install,
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let's install either PyCharm community, PyCharm professional or both,
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we just hit this, it is going to go download it, install it, I'll give it a second to finish,
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there you have it, PyCharm professional 2017.3.2 is installed and we can run it. So this thing should be ready to go
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and notice over here once you work with some projects you'll have actually interesting history that you can just quickly go from.
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One other thing to notice if you go to the settings here is we can have it automatically update itself and I am logged in as me,
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so this will give me access to all my licenses so you'll have to go ahead and log in potentially the first time when you run this.
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Okay, so that's all good, we can now run PyCharm and see what we get. There you go, it looks like it's opening this last project that I worked with,
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not super exciting, it was just some random thing that I played with,
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but here it is, right, this untitled thing that was in the recent projects history.
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The last thing to note, under settings, this will automatically run that log in,
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if we reboot, it should be back and keeping our PyCharm nice and up to date. So we already checked if we had the right version of Python
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which comes with most modern Ubuntus, and we use the Toolbox app to install and manage PyCharm. Let's see if we can get to it— here it is, perfect,
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you might even want to pin that to your favorites once you have it running.
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Here it stays right there close and active for us, we can just get right back to it. This Linux machine is ready to take this course,
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you don't need anything other than Python 3 and PyCharm, we got those two set up, we're ready to go.