1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Let's start with the Python installation on Windows. 2 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:06,430 In the two next lessons, I'm also going to 3 00:00:06,442 --> 00:00:09,000 show you how to do that for Linux and macOS, 4 00:00:09,001 --> 00:00:13,000 so feel free to just watch the installation lesson 5 00:00:13,001 --> 00:00:16,000 for the operating system you are currently 6 00:00:16,001 --> 00:00:18,000 using for the course, and skip the other ones. 7 00:00:18,001 --> 00:00:23,000 So for Windows, first go to python.org/download, 8 00:00:23,001 --> 00:00:28,000 so you can see the URL here, and you're going to get to that website. 9 00:00:28,001 --> 00:00:32,000 And here you should see "Download the latest version for Windows". 10 00:00:32,001 --> 00:00:36,000 So if they didn't detect your Windows operating system, 11 00:00:36,001 --> 00:00:41,000 just click here on Windows, and you are going to be able to download it here. 12 00:00:41,001 --> 00:00:45,000 So download the latest version, whatever version it is. 13 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:50,000 So it should start with 3 now, but from it's 3.9.5, 14 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:54,000 for you can be anything, just download the latest version, it doesn't really matter. 15 00:00:54,001 --> 00:00:59,000 The functionalities are going to be the same for what we need. 16 00:00:59,001 --> 00:01:04,000 So now it's downloading, and once you have the 17 00:01:04,001 --> 00:01:07,000 Python Execute Table, you can just open it and click. 18 00:01:07,001 --> 00:01:10,000 So just execute the Python Execute Table, 19 00:01:10,001 --> 00:01:15,000 and you will get to this menu, "Install Python 3", 20 00:01:15,001 --> 00:01:22,000 and one thing that is very important is to check that box here, "Add Python to path". 21 00:01:22,001 --> 00:01:23,000 You have to do that. 22 00:01:23,001 --> 00:01:25,000 This is an important step. 23 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:28,000 And then you can click on "Install Now", 24 00:01:28,001 --> 00:01:36,000 and this is going to install Python on your computer. 25 00:01:36,001 --> 00:01:41,000 Okay, and then you can click on "Close", and Python is installed. 26 00:01:41,001 --> 00:01:46,000 What you can do is you can go on the search bar here, and search for "Python". 27 00:01:46,001 --> 00:01:51,000 And you will see Python, so you have a new application, 28 00:01:51,001 --> 00:01:59,000 and here you have kind of a terminal with what we actually can call a Python shell. 29 00:01:59,001 --> 00:02:06,000 So I'm going to zoom with "Control" and the mouse, and you can see your version here. 30 00:02:06,001 --> 00:02:10,000 So it doesn't really matter if you don't have the same as me, okay? 31 00:02:10,001 --> 00:02:13,000 Once again, the version is not important for this 32 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:15,000 course, the important is that it starts with three, 33 00:02:15,001 --> 00:02:19,000 and then after the course, you're going to be able to choose different versions 34 00:02:19,001 --> 00:02:22,000 for different applications if you want to, okay? 35 00:02:22,001 --> 00:02:25,000 So here you have three angle brackets. 36 00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:32,000 You can just use double quotes, hello double quotes, and if you can see "Hello" here, 37 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:36,000 it means that Python is correctly working and installed on your computer. 38 00:02:36,001 --> 00:02:38,000 And now you are ready to continue, 39 00:02:38,001 --> 00:02:42,000 so you can skip the Linux and Mac OS installation videos. 40 00:02:42,001 --> 00:02:46,000 Go to the next section to start writing Python code right away.