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In this video we're going to go ahead

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and download and install Python for the

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Windows platform. Now if you're running a

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Mac or running a Linux computer, do refer

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to the separate videos in this section

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of the course and that's because the

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process of downloading and installing

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path are slightly different for those

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platforms, but if you run in Windows

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follow along in this video. So the first

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thing to do is go to python.org,

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and once you get there you can

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move your mouse down to downloads and

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you can see a little pop-up window came

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up and come over here and select what is

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the latest version and you can see

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currently it's showing Python to three

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point six point two, so I'm going to

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click that then I'm going to actually

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save this and while that's downloading,

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all that shouldn't take long, I just want

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to mention that you probably don't want

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or you certainly don't want to download

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Python 2. In this course we're going to

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be going through and using Python 3,

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but do keep in mind that we'll talk a

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little bit from time to time about the

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older version Python, but in general we

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definitely want you to download and use

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Python 3, because that's the majority of

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the courses and of course it's the most

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recent version. Alright so down on the

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bottom you can see that's now finished

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downloading, so I'm going to click on run,

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now you click this little option that will

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pop up, it gives you the directory where

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it's going to install the files, you can

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choose a custom installation, you don't

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really need to do that, anything you

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really need to do here is just click on

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this little checkbox, I mean it very

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important that you do that to add python

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3.6 to path, so that's been checked and

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they've come up here and click on

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install now, noting that it's actually

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installing it there in my local app data

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folder. So click on install now,

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you didn't see that most likely but there's

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a little pop-up that came up and said

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I had to click on yes to allow it to

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continue installing, so I clicked on that

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and it's now going through the process,

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it's a fairly fast process I won't take

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too long to finish.

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Alright, so at this point you can see

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that it's actually now finished and

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successfully installed and we just click

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on close, we can ignore this disabled

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path length limit, we don't need to worry

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about that, click on close and what we

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want to do now is just verify that

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Python has been correctly installed and

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that we can access it and one quick way

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to do that is to come over here and

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click on your Windows icon right-click

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it and select run, that should work on

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most versions of Windows but just make

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sure that you get this option to run and

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type in that little window a little

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while the order should say CMD which is

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an abbreviation for command press enter

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that opens up a command window and if we

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just type in Python now, python press

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enter you can see in my case it's came

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up and said python three point six point

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two. So that's a visual confirmation that

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python has been successfully installed.

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Now I'm going to exit out of this by

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typing exit then left to right

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parenthesis press enter and if you

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happen to type Python but you've got

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something like this and I'm just going

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to type it incorrect command, so if you

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type Python and you got python is not

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recognized as an internal or external

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command, two things probably you or one

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of two things may have occurred firstly

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you may not have click on that add to

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path, which was on that first checkbox

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that came up when were installing python

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and secondly, you may need to reboot your

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computer for the change to take effect.

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So first things first would be to reboot

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and see and go back into the command

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window and see whether that fixes the

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problem, if that doesn't fix it you might

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want to go through the process of

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uninstalling and reinstalling python and

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making sure that this time you click on

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that add to path checkbox to make sure

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that's ticked and you should find in

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most cases that will fix the problem,

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for once I'm going to type exit there to

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close down the command window at this

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point we're done.

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So we're done with the installation of

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Python and we can move on to the next video.