Using and Mastering Cookiecutter Transcripts
Chapter: System setup and installing Cookiecutter
Lecture: Linux setup
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Hello my Linux friends. Let's talk about what you've got to set up on your machine to do this class, in the same way that I am at least.
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You'll see that you actually already have Python and Python 3 installed in Linux if you're using something like Ubuntu,
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so that's pretty awesome, I'll show you where to go to get it if you don't happen to have it.
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And, I'll show you how to install PyCharm, it works wonderfully on Linux but it's a little bit of a pain to set up so I'll walk you through that.
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So, here we are over in Ubuntu 15, brand new fresh version I literally just downloaded it, and we're on the PyCharm page,
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so we can go and download PyCharm, you'll see there is actually two versions, there is a professional and a community edition,
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we're going to download the professional edition, you can get a 30 day free trial and if you pay for it like I do,
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then obviously you could have it forever. The main difference between the community and professional edition,
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the community edition is always free, is the community edition does a whole bunch of cool Python stuff, but doesn't do web or database work,
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the professional edition does in addition to standard Python things, web frameworks, TypeScript, database, designer type things.
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So for this course, you can totally get by with community but for professional work, well, maybe a professional is the thing to go with.
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Some of the other editors you might choose, if for some reason you don't want to use PyCharm, is you could use Atom,
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this is a really great editor from GitHub, I really like it, and the video is hilarious so check out the video just for a laugh.
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Sublime Text is very popular and of course you can use Emacs or Vim that a lot of people are using.
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As I said, Ubuntu comes with Python 2 and 3 but for some reason if you need to download it, just come over here, Python.org, grab the latest version,
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it will automatically find the right thing for your operating system, you could also install it with aptitude, you can do things like
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apt-get install Python3-dev there is a couple of packages that you can install.
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So first, let's verify that I actually do have Python installed, Python 3, so I can come over here and say Python3 --version and we have 3.4.3 plus,
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which makes it even better than 3.4.3, awesome, and then we have PyCharm, we're going to go download it now,
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it's kind of big so I actually already downloaded it, go over here to my downloads folder, and we have the tarball right here,
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so we need to decompress this and copy it somewhere else, so I come over here, right click and say extract here,
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and it will extract it out, now it has the version name here, let's find, let's make a new location and let's just put it in my home
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I like to create a folder called bin in my home and then in here I'll make a folder called PyCharm and within PyCharm I'll put PyCharm 5.0.4.
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Now if you open it up you see there is nothing to run right away but there is a bin folder within there and what we want to do is
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we want to run this script, so I could double click it and it will just open in gedit, not the best,
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so I am going to come over here and just drop it, into my terminal, and run it.
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Now, it turns out there is a problem, PyCharm is built on the IntelliJ platform, the IDE platform, and that platform is Java based,
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so we need to install Java before we can carry on. So on Ubuntu, we'll just use apt get so we'll say sudo
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for running super user, sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk And I'll put in my password, I'll wait for a moment,
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it says are you sure you want to do this, it might take a moment, 171 MB it's fine, go.
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Excellent, well, that took a minute, but now we have Java installed, let's try to run that again, PyCharm shell, now it's running,
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you can see it says do you want to import previous versions, well no, this is a brand new machine so no, not really.
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Now normally I would just login with my JetBrains account but for now,
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I'll just evaluate it for free, which you guys should be able to do for this class. When PyCharm first opens, it asks us what keyboard map
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and Visual Theme we would like, I am going to leave the keyboard map alone, but I like my code, my IDEs and Windows and stuff to be dark, not bright,
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so dark background, light code, so I am going to pick the Dracula theme for both, the code colors as well as IDE theme and we'll say ok,
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and you can't make this change unless you restart so yes, let's let it restart.
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Excellent, my PyCharm is running, it's nice and dark with its Dracula theme now the one other thing I'd like to do is notice it's over here,
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and I'd kind of like to not be running this shell script anymore, straight from the terminal, so let's run it one more time,
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notice it's gone from the launcher. Now, it's up and running, I can lock it to the launcher,
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and now this way, when it's gone, I want to launch it again, I can just come over here and launch it straight out of the launcher.
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Congratulations, you have PyCharm working on Ubuntu. Time to head on over and build your first app, and have a great time doing it.