OK, in this video, we're going to download Python, so I'm on a Windows computer, hopefully you are,
too.
If you're a Mac, you should be OK.
IMAX already have an old version of Python installed and it's not useful.
We can't use it for this course.
It's too old to be useful.
So you're going to need to uninstall that and reinstall that.
You're just going to have to Google it.
I'm sorry I'm not on a Mac.
I can't really help you, but definitely install the latest version of Python.
And I should mention before we get started, there are commands that are going to be using from time
to time.
Most of the time, I think all of the time you should be OK to use the commands that I'm using on a
Mac.
If you run into trouble with a Mac or a Linux computer and the commands don't work, just shoot me a
message and I'll tell you the Mac command that you can use to get around that.
So for the rest of us on Windows computers, let's go ahead and install Python now.
We can go to Python Dog.
This is the official Python website to download this.
Now, I should mention, if you have Python already on your computer, I recommend you uninstall it
and reinstall it.
And I'll show you why in just a minute.
There's some settings that you need to have correct in order to use this.
And by default, you may not have done them correctly when you installed Python at some other time.
So I recommend everybody uninstall Python, reinstall it and go from there.
Now, one other thing.
There are different versions of Python out there, like Anaconda, which is for like data science and
stuff like that.
If you have something like that, I don't recommend using that.
I recommend just sticking with the tried and true regular version of Python to follow along with this
course.
So head over to Python Dog and hover over the downloads link.
And here's the link to download for Windows.
If you're on a Mac, I think it will probably show you the the Mac version that you can download.
But notice we're on version three point eight point four.
That's the most current version right now.
If you're watching this course like a year from now or even a few months from now, this number will
likely change.
And that's OK.
Just download whatever the latest version is.
I get the question all the time.
Hey, I'm using this other version.
You know, how do I get the old version?
You don't have to just get the latest.
One Python version changes aren't really major until you see like a Python four, right.
That's a major version upgrade.
And then when that happens, you know, when we went from two to three, it changed a lot.
When we go from three to four, it may change a lot.
Anything inside of three, three point four, three point five, three point six, three point eight,
those are minor tweaks.
And you don't have to worry about them.
They all work the same.
Just we just call this python three, right?
Even though it's three point eight point four.
So whatever version it currently is, as long as long as it's three point something, you're fine.
Even if it's four point something, you're likely OK, just go ahead and download whatever the latest
one is is.
So I'm going to hover here, click this to download and we want to save this file and I'm on Windows.
You could save this anywhere.
I'm just going to save it to my desktop.
I've already got it, but I'll save it again.
Now I'm using the Firefox web browser and my downloads are up here on the top right corner, this little
blue arrow.
If you're on the Chrome Web browser, they're down here in the bottom left corner.
Whatever Web browser you're using, just go ahead and click the thing and then we can click this to
run the installation wizard.
And when we do, this box pops up.
So this is the installation wizard.
Now, here's the very important thing that I was talking about earlier.
This box right here, I had Python three point eight to path notice.
It's unchecked by default.
You have to check that box is very, very important to check that box, and that's why I said you should
uninstall Python if you already have it on your computer, because if you install this in the past,
chances are you didn't check this little box and we need to check this little box.
This will allow Python to run anywhere on your computer.
If you don't check that box, you can only run Python in the Python directory, and that's no good.
We want to be here on Python from anywhere on our computer.
So we want to add it to the Windows path.
I don't think Mac users have to deal with this, but Windows users do.
So the next thing I want to mention is a lot of people want to do a custom installation.
Don't do that.
Just click right here, install now to install the default.
Everything, right?
So I'm not going to do that.
I've already installed it.
But once you click this button, it will just go to the next screen and click next again and it will
just install.
And that's all there is to it.
Now, Python will just work on our computer.
We don't have to do anything special and it's just there.
So that's all for this video.
And the next video will download our coding text editor and our terminal.