1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:06,140 OK, in this video, we're going to download Python, so I'm on a Windows computer, hopefully you are, 2 00:00:06,140 --> 00:00:06,380 too. 3 00:00:06,380 --> 00:00:08,400 If you're a Mac, you should be OK. 4 00:00:08,420 --> 00:00:12,740 IMAX already have an old version of Python installed and it's not useful. 5 00:00:12,740 --> 00:00:14,060 We can't use it for this course. 6 00:00:14,060 --> 00:00:15,610 It's too old to be useful. 7 00:00:15,740 --> 00:00:17,930 So you're going to need to uninstall that and reinstall that. 8 00:00:17,930 --> 00:00:18,880 You're just going to have to Google it. 9 00:00:18,890 --> 00:00:20,000 I'm sorry I'm not on a Mac. 10 00:00:20,010 --> 00:00:24,350 I can't really help you, but definitely install the latest version of Python. 11 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:29,210 And I should mention before we get started, there are commands that are going to be using from time 12 00:00:29,210 --> 00:00:29,660 to time. 13 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:34,730 Most of the time, I think all of the time you should be OK to use the commands that I'm using on a 14 00:00:34,730 --> 00:00:35,090 Mac. 15 00:00:35,210 --> 00:00:39,140 If you run into trouble with a Mac or a Linux computer and the commands don't work, just shoot me a 16 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:42,330 message and I'll tell you the Mac command that you can use to get around that. 17 00:00:42,350 --> 00:00:46,850 So for the rest of us on Windows computers, let's go ahead and install Python now. 18 00:00:47,910 --> 00:00:49,870 We can go to Python Dog. 19 00:00:50,010 --> 00:00:52,440 This is the official Python website to download this. 20 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,630 Now, I should mention, if you have Python already on your computer, I recommend you uninstall it 21 00:00:57,630 --> 00:00:58,650 and reinstall it. 22 00:00:58,830 --> 00:01:00,710 And I'll show you why in just a minute. 23 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,320 There's some settings that you need to have correct in order to use this. 24 00:01:04,590 --> 00:01:09,450 And by default, you may not have done them correctly when you installed Python at some other time. 25 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:14,280 So I recommend everybody uninstall Python, reinstall it and go from there. 26 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:15,930 Now, one other thing. 27 00:01:15,930 --> 00:01:21,030 There are different versions of Python out there, like Anaconda, which is for like data science and 28 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:21,540 stuff like that. 29 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:24,300 If you have something like that, I don't recommend using that. 30 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:28,920 I recommend just sticking with the tried and true regular version of Python to follow along with this 31 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:29,190 course. 32 00:01:29,190 --> 00:01:32,540 So head over to Python Dog and hover over the downloads link. 33 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:35,010 And here's the link to download for Windows. 34 00:01:35,150 --> 00:01:39,240 If you're on a Mac, I think it will probably show you the the Mac version that you can download. 35 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,350 But notice we're on version three point eight point four. 36 00:01:42,630 --> 00:01:44,580 That's the most current version right now. 37 00:01:44,580 --> 00:01:49,260 If you're watching this course like a year from now or even a few months from now, this number will 38 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:50,250 likely change. 39 00:01:50,250 --> 00:01:50,910 And that's OK. 40 00:01:50,910 --> 00:01:52,950 Just download whatever the latest version is. 41 00:01:52,950 --> 00:01:54,330 I get the question all the time. 42 00:01:54,330 --> 00:01:56,010 Hey, I'm using this other version. 43 00:01:56,370 --> 00:01:58,130 You know, how do I get the old version? 44 00:01:58,140 --> 00:01:59,790 You don't have to just get the latest. 45 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:06,930 One Python version changes aren't really major until you see like a Python four, right. 46 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,790 That's a major version upgrade. 47 00:02:08,910 --> 00:02:13,500 And then when that happens, you know, when we went from two to three, it changed a lot. 48 00:02:13,710 --> 00:02:16,290 When we go from three to four, it may change a lot. 49 00:02:16,590 --> 00:02:21,600 Anything inside of three, three point four, three point five, three point six, three point eight, 50 00:02:21,810 --> 00:02:23,310 those are minor tweaks. 51 00:02:23,310 --> 00:02:24,510 And you don't have to worry about them. 52 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:25,620 They all work the same. 53 00:02:26,190 --> 00:02:28,530 Just we just call this python three, right? 54 00:02:28,530 --> 00:02:29,970 Even though it's three point eight point four. 55 00:02:29,970 --> 00:02:34,650 So whatever version it currently is, as long as long as it's three point something, you're fine. 56 00:02:34,650 --> 00:02:39,030 Even if it's four point something, you're likely OK, just go ahead and download whatever the latest 57 00:02:39,030 --> 00:02:40,170 one is is. 58 00:02:40,170 --> 00:02:45,360 So I'm going to hover here, click this to download and we want to save this file and I'm on Windows. 59 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:46,380 You could save this anywhere. 60 00:02:46,380 --> 00:02:48,090 I'm just going to save it to my desktop. 61 00:02:48,930 --> 00:02:50,670 I've already got it, but I'll save it again. 62 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:55,410 Now I'm using the Firefox web browser and my downloads are up here on the top right corner, this little 63 00:02:55,410 --> 00:02:56,010 blue arrow. 64 00:02:56,190 --> 00:03:00,030 If you're on the Chrome Web browser, they're down here in the bottom left corner. 65 00:03:00,030 --> 00:03:04,620 Whatever Web browser you're using, just go ahead and click the thing and then we can click this to 66 00:03:04,620 --> 00:03:05,940 run the installation wizard. 67 00:03:06,570 --> 00:03:08,370 And when we do, this box pops up. 68 00:03:08,370 --> 00:03:10,740 So this is the installation wizard. 69 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:13,770 Now, here's the very important thing that I was talking about earlier. 70 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,700 This box right here, I had Python three point eight to path notice. 71 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:19,230 It's unchecked by default. 72 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:25,440 You have to check that box is very, very important to check that box, and that's why I said you should 73 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,270 uninstall Python if you already have it on your computer, because if you install this in the past, 74 00:03:30,270 --> 00:03:34,050 chances are you didn't check this little box and we need to check this little box. 75 00:03:34,230 --> 00:03:37,110 This will allow Python to run anywhere on your computer. 76 00:03:37,590 --> 00:03:42,380 If you don't check that box, you can only run Python in the Python directory, and that's no good. 77 00:03:42,390 --> 00:03:44,880 We want to be here on Python from anywhere on our computer. 78 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,620 So we want to add it to the Windows path. 79 00:03:46,830 --> 00:03:49,790 I don't think Mac users have to deal with this, but Windows users do. 80 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,780 So the next thing I want to mention is a lot of people want to do a custom installation. 81 00:03:53,790 --> 00:03:54,390 Don't do that. 82 00:03:54,390 --> 00:03:58,730 Just click right here, install now to install the default. 83 00:03:58,770 --> 00:03:59,520 Everything, right? 84 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:00,690 So I'm not going to do that. 85 00:04:00,690 --> 00:04:01,530 I've already installed it. 86 00:04:01,530 --> 00:04:06,240 But once you click this button, it will just go to the next screen and click next again and it will 87 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:06,930 just install. 88 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,190 And that's all there is to it. 89 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,220 Now, Python will just work on our computer. 90 00:04:10,230 --> 00:04:12,840 We don't have to do anything special and it's just there. 91 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:13,980 So that's all for this video. 92 00:04:13,980 --> 00:04:17,580 And the next video will download our coding text editor and our terminal.