Setup (Lab 1A)

Now that we learned the background behind Python, lets get to coding. Since Python is cross-platform, you can use whatever OS and text editor/IDE that you'd like. Below are my recommendations:

  • Vim (terminal based: steep learning curve)
  • Nano (terminal based)
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Sublime
  • Atom
  • Brackets
  • Notepad++

Recommend against:

  • Visual Studio
  • Eclipse
  • PyCharm
  • EMacs
  • etc

We flat out do not need a full fledged IDE for training. Python is easy to understand and type. We are going to focus on being independent and debugging with our own debugging code.

If your Python is out of date (2.7.15 & 3.7):

Python2

Ubuntu(debian based):

sudo apt install python
  • The command for python2 in Ubuntu will be: python or python2

Windows:

Python3

Ubuntu(debian based):

sudo apt install python3
  • The command for python3.7 in Ubuntu will be: python3

    • Though that's a bit of a pain to write... so feel free to create an alias

    • The following are some suggested aliases:

      alias py37=python3.7
alias python37=python3.7

Windows: