Okay, let's take a look at installing Python.
A lot of computers actually already come with Python.
If you're on a Mac, it probably already came with Python
2, maybe a version of Python 3.
A lot of Windows computers these days come with Python as
well. Linux probably already has Python, but let's not
make any assumptions here.
So what I want you to do is open up your browser, go to 'python.org',
and you'll see this website that looks like it hasn't
changed since 1998.
And let's go to 'Downloads', and the latest version,
and this has detected that I'm already on a Mac computer
is 3.8.2.
So it's going to suggest that I download this.
You could download the suggested version as well for your
operating system, or you can scroll down a little bit and
you can download a different version.
So you can see we have all these different versions, there's
lots of them in here.
So I'm going to highly recommend that you download either
Python 3.7 or 3.8, or if you're watching this a little bit
after recording of this course, and Python 3.9 or 3.10 is
out, download the latest version.
So I'm going to suggest getting Python 3.8.2 right now.
And if you click this, it's actually going to bring me down to a
page, it'll bring you down to a page like this, too, and you have
to scroll down to the bottom.
And if you're on Windows, you'll probably want the 64-bit
executable installer.
That's going to be the easiest way to install Python on Windows.
If you're on Mac, you probably want the macOS 64-bit installer.
That's probably going to be the easiest way.
And if you were on some sort of Unix type system also known
as Linux, you could download or curl the 'source tarball', or
the 'Gzipped source tarball', uncompress it and install it.
So once you have Python downloaded and installed, you need
both of them, download and install itt
then let's head on to that next lesson.
But don't move on to the next lesson until you absolutely
have Python downloaded and installed.