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Python Course For Beginners | Installation Step to Step

Author: Manoj Singh Rathore
by Manoj Singh Rathore
Posted: Apr 21, 2019

Welcome back everyone in this python course lecture.

We're going to discuss Python and its advantages in an overview briefly and then we'll show you how to install Python on your computer.

Now Python was developed in 1991 by Van Rossum, and it's quickly become one of the most popular programming languages in the world, And this is because it has many advantages.

The main advantage is that python course in delhi has is that developers can learn it quickly and this is because it typically involves a lot less code than other languages and the syntax is a lot easier to read.

Moreover, this is because as you'll learn later on is that Python makes use of whitespace.

That is a uses indentation instead of curly braces and that allows users to learn it a lot faster than they would other programming languages.

Moreover, because of that Python is now utilized by pretty much every major technology company in some capacity.

Moreover, what's also really lovely about Python is that there's a massive amount of additional open source libraries then that's basically to say if you want to perform a particular task in Python, maybe you want to create PTF in Python send an email in Python work with images data analysis create a web site.

There are additional frameworks and libraries available to you that are open source that people have created that allow you to do those things Python itself has much stuff built in.

It's known as a programming language that has batteries included.

Moreover, that's because there's a lot of standard libraries that are included in Python that allow you to do already much stuff that is to say for instance it has a math library that has many capabilities, but there are additional libraries in case you need to focus more on a particular niche topic such as numerical computing.

There's a library called Num. Peiffer that so to look at all these advantages and start learning

Python We need to install it, and we're going to install Python using the free Anaconda distribution.

Moreover, the reason for that is that this distribution includes Python as well as many other useful libraries including Jupiter which is the notebook system.

We're going to be using throughout the course, later on, we'll use things like text editors to write Python scripts.

However, when we first start learning, and Jupiter is a great choice now Anaconda another reason we choose it is that it can be easily installed onto any primary operating system such as when those Mac OS or Linux.

One thing I do want to point out before we jump to the actual Anaconda download web site is that because Anaconda includes a lot of these other libraries there's also a miniature version of Anaconda which has many Khanda which is a lot smaller suffocation or has enough room on your computer for the full and a constellation.

There's also many Khanda, and we'll be showing you how to work with that right after we show you the main Anaconda setup.

So it is recommended that you use the full Anaconda but just in case you don't have a fast internet connection or you don't have enough space on your computer you can always use mini Mini-Con.

So this began the installation process by going to w w w and Colorado com slash downloads. I'll see you there.

So Anaconda dot com slash download the Web site will look something similar to this.

It may be updated from time to time as far as the look and feel, but in general, it will have the download links for the various installers for the Windows Mac OS and Linux systems.

Moreover, if you click on one of these, you'll be brought down to the actual download links for the graphical installers or the command line installers.

By the time you view this page, it's most likely that 3.7 or 3.8 or even 3.9 has been released. So keep that in mind.

Any version of Python 3 should be excellent for our use cases.

Now if you're on Windows, you'll go ahead and download the graphical installer 64 bit or 32 bit depending on your computer.

Most newer computers are going to be 64 bit, and if you have any questions on that, you can click to learn more.

However, this is just a graphical installer so wizard that's going to walk you step by step on the installation process.

So for Windows users click on this graphical installer download it.

If you're on Mac OS, click on this graphical installer and download it and then if you're on Linux, you'll be clicking on this installer and downloading it.

Keep in mind that Linux users have a command line installer and you'll have to type commands that will show you in just a second.

Once you've decided which version you're going to download.

Scroll down a little bit and click HERE where it says how to install Anaconda and the pending on what operating system you're currently on.

It will take you to one of these three pages here you can see installing on Windows, and it has step by step instructions for installing the graphical installers are quite straightforward.

You select the defaults hit next and follow along with these — step by step instructions.

You don't need to worry about number 2 as far as verifying the data integrity.

If you're on a Mac OS, it's the same thing if you click on that link on how to install it will guide you through the graphical installation process for Mac OS. Again step by step process.

Pretty straightforward.

Just hit continue on all the screens.

If you're on Linux, it's going to be slightly different.

What you need to do is you'll be downloading a sh file and then at your command line or a terminal you'll be running the next command bash and then right here down tilde downloads and the three and then whatever version you happen to be clicking on.

Just copy and paste this command into your terminal.

A quick note for Windows users and this is a pretty important one.

You'll eventually have a screen that looks like this saying advanced installation options, and you can choose whether or not you want to add anaconda to your path environment variable and call themselves recommend not to add Anaconda as a path environment variable.

Since this can interfere with other software typically what it's going to interfere with is previous downloads of Python in Techstack institute.

However, since this is probably your first download of python we highly recommend that you do add anaconda to your path environment variable.

This will allow you to call Konda specific commands directly at your command line.

Again for Windows users, we do recommend the add anaconda to your path environment variable.

When you click on it, you'll notice that it says not recommended. It'll highlight in red.

Go ahead and click on it anyways and then install.

Now as we previously mentioned these graphical installation files include Anaconda Python and many other libraries in this distribution, so you'll notice that it's quite a large file.

About half a gigabyte depending on your internet connection or the space available on your computer.

You may not want to download install all these libraries.

Instead, you probably want the basics of Python for that use case.

You can look for conduct that I O slash Mini-Con the dash 8 T.M. or just google search for many Khanda, and it will take you to the Mini-Con the links for the installers, and it's basically the same thing except it's a much smaller file and it does include a variety of the libraries which you don't really need to worry about.

So there's one for Windows Mac OS and Linux surfer interested in a much smaller file download.

You can use those installers as well.

However, we do recommend that if you have the bandwidth and the space that you download the full.

Anaconda installation.

Once you've successfully downloaded and gone through the installation steps for Anaconda, you should be able to search your computer for Anaconda navigator.

This is a desktop app that allows you to launch duper notebooks quickly.

So go ahead and confirm your installation by clicking on Anaconda Navigator.

It will load up and eventually you'll see something that looks like this with quick little dashboards that allow you to launch different development environments.

There's that Jupiter notebook R-Maine development environment. There are cootie cons.

Spider in other integrated development environment.

There are also other things like glue. Is Jupiter lab.

Moreover, even aren't our studio. If you decide to learn later on are you can install it as well as a click of a button.

So we're going to be using the Neukom navigator to launch Jupiter notebooks quickly.

So now that we have Anaconda and Python installed on your computer, you should be able to open up the Anaconda navigator.

Up next we'll discuss how to run Python code either as a script at the command line or using the Jupiter notebook.

About the Author

My name is Manoj Singh Rathore. I am working as a digital marketing head in Techstack.

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