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Chapter: System setup and installing Cookiecutter
Lecture: Windows setup
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Hello my Windows friends, let's get you all set up and ready to work on this class, and I have good news for you-
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until very recently, using Python on Windows has been actually fairly painful to get it set up and everything configured right,
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but with Python 3.5 the installer and the set up process is way better, so let's get to it.
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To get started, you're going to need two resources on Windows, you're going to need to install Python 3 which you can get at Python.org,
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and you're going to need to install PyCharm at jetbrains.com/pycharm Let's go over to Windows 10, here is a brand new,
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completely fresh install of Windows 10 I just got from Microsoft, and I've open up the various web pages we're going to be working with;
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first thing we have to do is install Python and as I told you, there is no Python on Windows, if I open this up and I type Python there is no Python.
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So we have to download Python, and we want 3.5.1 or whatever the latest version of 3 is and I've already actually downloaded it,
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so I won't click here, but you just click that, that's super easy, the other thing we need to download is PyCharm, so here is PyCharm,
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it actually comes in two editions, the professional edition and the community edition,
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you can pick either for this class, the community edition is totally fine, the things you'll be missing are you'll basically be missing out
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on web development and database management features from the professional edition,
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and the community for straight pure Python has the same features as professional. If for some reason you don't want to use PyCharm,
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you want something more lightweight, you can use Atom, at atom.io, atom is from GitHub, it's pretty cool,
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I really like this editor, you can see there is a little video here, I recommend you watch it, it's pretty hilarious,
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Sublime Text is also a super popular lightweight editor and I told you about Visual Studio so you can get Visual Studio community edition,
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this is now a free full-fledged version of Visual Studio, and you can get Python tools for Visual Studio,
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plug this together and you're doing pretty good. But, we're going to be using PyCharm in the class,
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so that is what I will set up here. Let's start by installing Python. So I've got it downloaded, and I'm going to run it,
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now it has a couple of options in the installer, let's say if you're going to try to just type Python
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from the command line or other tools like pip, for installing packages, you probably want to add this to your path and let's customize installation
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just to see what we get, we get documentation pip which manages packages, we'll talk about that in our apps, and we have the test suite
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and py launcher is really nice, and we don't need to install it for all the users. Let's go ahead and pre compile the standard library,
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that will give us a little better perf, I really don't like this big long folder here, so this app data folder is hidden in Windows,
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so it's kind of hard to discover where these are so I am just going to put a Python folder directly in my user profile
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and then in case you want to have a 64 bit or 32 bit version of Python
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or maybe different types 2.7, 3.5 you probably want to leave this specifier here, that seems like a good setup, let's go.
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Alright, Python was set up successfully, let's close this and let's just find out, if I type Python --version
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we should see 3.5.1 and survey says, success, okay, Python is working. Last thing to set up is just PyCharm.
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So the installer is just a standard Windows installer, just sort of yes your way through, it's up to you
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whether you associate py files with it, I typically don't do that but it's your call. Okay, so it looks like we successfully installed PyCharm,
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that was easy, let's go and run it, brand new, nothing to import, now, normally I would log in with my JetBrains account,
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but for this purpose I'll just evaluate it, say okay, that's great, the first time you launch PyCharm it asks you what theme
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and keyword scheme you want to use, because this is Windows, I'll say Visual Studio keyboard theme and I like my code dark,
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the editor is dark and the code, text to be light, so I am going to pick the Dracula theme, you pick whichever you like.
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And there you have it, PyCharm is up and ready to roll. This brand new version of Windows 10 is ready, so without further ado, let's move on.