1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:07,110 In this video, you'll find the instructions on how to install Python and the Visual Studio Code IDE 2 00:00:07,110 --> 00:00:11,490 on your computer on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. 3 00:00:11,850 --> 00:00:16,530 So if you are on Windows, go to minutes 0:23 of this video. 4 00:00:16,530 --> 00:00:19,560 If you you're on Mac go to minute 3:42. 5 00:00:19,860 --> 00:00:22,950 And if you are on Linux, go to minute 5:38. 6 00:00:23,850 --> 00:00:28,830 Here is how to install Python and the Visual Studio Code IDE on Windows. 7 00:00:29,190 --> 00:00:33,380 First, let's install Python and then Visual Studio Code. To install Python 8 00:00:33,390 --> 00:00:37,920 you need to go to python.org, which is the official Python website. 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:46,800 And then go over to downloads. Now, be careful here, if you have Windows 10, you can click this button 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,920 to download the latest version of Python. 11 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:57,870 If you have Windows 7 or earlier, you should download Python 3.8 or earlier. To download 12 00:00:57,870 --> 00:00:59,340 Python 3.8 or earlier, 13 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:01,680 you can go to this link. 14 00:01:01,860 --> 00:01:07,980 There you see a list of Python versions to download and then you can download Python 3.8. 15 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:15,270 Otherwise, if you are using a modern version of Windows such as Windows 10, then feel free to click 16 00:01:15,270 --> 00:01:22,890 on this button and the Python executable should be downloading and then you can click over the file. 17 00:01:23,940 --> 00:01:30,360 And before doing anything, you want to check this option here 'Add Python 3.9 to PATH'. 18 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:38,280 That will allow Windows to easily find Python to run your Python script and then go over to install now. 19 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:44,770 Press yes, and wait for the installation to complete. 20 00:01:46,970 --> 00:01:52,370 Once the installation is successful, then click close to close that window and then we can go over 21 00:01:52,370 --> 00:01:58,760 to the Visual Studio Code IDE official website, to download and install Visual Studio Code. 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:06,720 So code.visualstudio.com, type that in your browser or just Google for Visual Studio Code. 23 00:02:07,010 --> 00:02:10,490 Don't confuse Visual Studio Code with Visual Studio. 24 00:02:10,790 --> 00:02:12,910 These are two different IDE-s. 25 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:19,070 So the one we are using is Visual Studio Code, then go over to 'Download for Windows'. 26 00:02:21,780 --> 00:02:28,950 An executable file should be downloading here, and once the download finishes, click over the executable, 27 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:36,510 accept the agreement and go next, next, next. Then we have some options here. 28 00:02:36,750 --> 00:02:37,650 This is optional. 29 00:02:37,650 --> 00:02:40,800 If you would like to have a desktop icon, you can click that. 30 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:41,760 I don't prefer that. 31 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:43,230 So I'll leave it unchecked. 32 00:02:43,650 --> 00:02:51,230 This is a good option to check because it allows you to open folders as a Visual Studio Code projects. 33 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,400 So this is also optional. 34 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:57,870 But I would suggest to check all these four options and click on next. 35 00:02:59,170 --> 00:03:00,070 And install. 36 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:09,700 Then you can press finish and Visual Studio Code will launch or you can uncheck that and launch Visual 37 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:17,650 Studio Code from your programs or you can search here for "VS" and Visual Studio Code should be 38 00:03:17,650 --> 00:03:18,440 listed here. 39 00:03:18,550 --> 00:03:20,290 You can click that 40 00:03:20,290 --> 00:03:22,750 Visual Studio Code will open up. In the next video, 41 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:29,350 I'll show you how to write and run our first Python program in Visual Studio Code. 42 00:03:29,470 --> 00:03:33,970 Of course, this program is not one of the 10 apps that we will build together. 43 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:40,870 It's just a simple program with the purpose of demonstrating how to use Visual Studio Code to write, 44 00:03:40,870 --> 00:03:41,800 and run Python programs. 45 00:03:41,950 --> 00:03:42,580 Thanks a lot! 46 00:03:43,510 --> 00:03:48,850 Here is how to install Python and the Visual Studio Code IDE on Mac Computers. 47 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,180 Let's start with Python first. 48 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:58,210 Go to python.org, the official Python website, and then go over to download and then press 49 00:03:58,210 --> 00:03:59,160 that button there. 50 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:10,480 Press OK to open the downloaded file with the installer and then just continue, continue, continue, 51 00:04:11,340 --> 00:04:12,090 agree. 52 00:04:13,070 --> 00:04:20,720 Continue, and install, enter your user password, and press on install software. 53 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:29,230 And that was how to install Python, you can close the windows, Python is installed now. 54 00:04:29,510 --> 00:04:36,060 Let's now install Visual Studio Code, so go to the official website of Visual Studio Code, which is 55 00:04:36,060 --> 00:04:40,680 code.visualstudio.com or just Google Visual Studio Code. 56 00:04:40,950 --> 00:04:43,790 And that should take you to the website of Visual Studio Code. 57 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:49,860 Noe that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are two different IDE-s. 58 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:54,780 And the one we are using is Visual Studio Code, so this one. 59 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:01,440 To download it, just press this big button and the file should be downloading. 60 00:05:02,470 --> 00:05:06,460 You can open it with your Archive Utility because it's a zip file. 61 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:16,250 And this is the executable, it is recommended to move that executable to your Mac applications folder. 62 00:05:19,550 --> 00:05:25,700 So Visual Studio now is among my Mac applications. To open Visual Studio Codes, you can double click that, 63 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:29,840 press open, and that is Visual Studio Code. 64 00:05:30,290 --> 00:05:36,680 In the next video, I'll show you how to write and run your first Python program in Visual Studio Code. 65 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:37,430 Thanks. 66 00:05:38,820 --> 00:05:45,960 Here is how to install Python and the Visual Studio Code IDE on Linux computers. You can install Python 67 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:47,640 on Linux using the terminal. 68 00:05:47,940 --> 00:05:51,780 So search for terminal among your programs, open terminal. 69 00:05:51,780 --> 00:05:55,860 And first, you want to do a sudo apt update. 70 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:04,170 Enter the password for your Linux for sudo and present enter. Once the update finishes, 71 00:06:04,170 --> 00:06:08,010 then you want to do sudo apt install python3. 72 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:15,490 And that should install Python on your computer, in my case, Python was already installed by default 73 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,210 and the latest version of Python available was installed. 74 00:06:19,510 --> 00:06:24,190 That's why I got this message here that says 'python3 is already the newest version'. 75 00:06:24,340 --> 00:06:25,570 So everything is fine. 76 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:28,980 Let's now install Visual Studio Code IDE. 77 00:06:29,230 --> 00:06:36,130 So open your browser, go to the official website of Visual Studio Code, which is 78 00:06:36,130 --> 00:06:37,060 code.visualstudio.com. 79 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,420 Otherwise search on Google for Visual Studio Code. 80 00:06:41,170 --> 00:06:44,890 But don't confuse Visual Studio Codes with Visual Studio. 81 00:06:45,070 --> 00:06:51,700 Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are two different IDE-s, and the one we are using in the course 82 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:53,190 is Visual Studio Code. 83 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:58,450 So then in the website, go to the 'deb' file download. 84 00:07:02,670 --> 00:07:07,410 And wait until the file is downloaded and then double click the file. 85 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:16,860 Visual Studio Code is also available to be installed as a snap package, so that would be an alternative 86 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:17,820 of installing it. 87 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,080 Otherwise, you can follow my instructions. 88 00:07:23,390 --> 00:07:28,910 So enter your Linux passwords and wait for the installation to complete. 89 00:07:30,430 --> 00:07:38,350 Once the installation is completed, you can go and search for Visual Studio Codes, so the VS should 90 00:07:38,350 --> 00:07:42,670 show up Visual Studio Code, which you can open and it should look like this. 91 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,350 And that was also to install Python and Visual Studio Code on Linux. 92 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,630 In the next video, I'll show you how to create your first Python program in Visual Studio Code. 93 00:07:52,810 --> 00:07:53,260 Thanks.