Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Course setup and tooling
Lecture: Course setup on OS X
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Hello my fellow OSX fans. Let's talk about getting your machine setup so you are ready to take this course.
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The first thing you are going to need to do is set up Python 3. We can check to see whether Python 3 is installed,
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first let's see what happens when we say Python--version. OK, so we have Python 2.7 installed, that comes with the OS X, that's cool.
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But if we ask for Python 3, which on OSX we can do by typing Python3 like this, you'll see no, there is no Python 3.
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So, just download it and choose that, choose the 3.5.2 choose whatever the current version is when you get here.
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Now, I already downloaded it so let's go and install it. It just comes as a package, install package, so just next your way through it.
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Excellent, it looks like it was installed just fine. Now, let's try that again. Excellent, we have Python 3.5.2 installed.
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So Python is all set up, the other thing we are going to need is an editor. And we already talked about using PyCharm as the editor for this course.
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So, over here at jetbrains.com/pycharm we'll see, here is the PyCharm page, and we can go and just download that,
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there's actually a choice when you go to download, do you want the professional or do you want the community edition. Now, what's the difference?
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Well, on the other page, if you scroll down farther, you'll see that for the basic Python stuff, everything is the same, right,
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the community and the pro edition. Where they really differ, unfortunately for this class, is actually where it matters.
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So, in addition to having the regular Python support, it's all about web development, the web frameworks, database support,
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things like that are only available in the pro edition, but luckily there is a 30 day free trial. And it's not too expensive, you can pay $8.90 a month
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or you can pay $89 a year and it gets cheaper as it goes on and on. So like I said, I've already downloaded PyCharm,
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let's go ahead and mount it, it's a disc image, and installing is pretty much draggy droppy, no problem, just wait for it to copy over.
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And now it's all ready to go. When it launches, it will ask you the first time what theme you want and so on, I would choose, I like the dark theme
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so I choose the Dracula theme for both the IDE theme and the layout or font colors. You can pick whichever you want.
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And there you go, PyCharm is ready to create a new project, of course, we are saving that for a little bit later, but just to look ahead,
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it's going to start right there. If for some reason you really don't want to use PyCharm,
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Sublime Text is a great option, it has support for Python, JavaScript, CSS, not as good as PyCharm but still, not bad.
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Another good recommendation is Atom, if you want the more lightweight text editor, so you can download that, and it's also free, this is from GitHub.
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But like I said, we are going to be using PyCharm for most of the course, and it really is more full-featured, more helpful,
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more efficient than most of these. All right, this Mac is ready to rock and roll and get going on this course.