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Hi and welcome to this new lecture, in

this lecture you're going to learn how

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to set up Python in a Mac computer so if

you are Windows user you can skip this

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lecture because you have a Windows

computer and we explained how to set up

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platform on Windows previously in the

previous lectures and the instructions

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or will also work for Linux computers

because a Mac is based on Unix and so

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let's begin, first thing you need to know

is that you already have Python on your

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Mac so Python comes shipped with Mac by

default now let's go and open Python.

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I'm going to click here and then type

terminal and then open a terminal app so

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terminal is equivalent of a command line

on Windows and here no let's go ahead and

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open Python, you can simply call Python

and if you see these three arrows there

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that means you are able to start a Python

session so good news, however if you

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look here you'll see this is Python 2.7

so it's a bit outdated and the current

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version of python is Python 3 so it's

recommended that you actually install

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Python 3 on your Mac or Linux instead of

using the old version Python 2.7 because

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we're going to use a lot of libraries

later on the course and some libraries

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may not be compatible for Python 2.7. You

can still work with to python 2.7 if you

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take the responsibility to fix errors

and compatibility issues that may arise

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as you learn Python, so it's going to be

maybe some extra work, however I advise

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you to install Python 3, so I'm going to

exit Python 2 and the Python 2 session, exit

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and two brackets and you go again back

to the terminal. To install Python 3 open

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a browser

and then you should go to python.org, then go to

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downloads and then install the latest

version of Python which should be shown

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here so python 3.6 is the current

version and that should download

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Python, you can see this bar in here and so

please don't uninstall Python 2.7 if you

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are planning to install Python 3.6

because Python 2.7 is connected to your

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operating system so if you uninstall it

it you may harm your operating

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system, so you may get some messy errors

there so simply ignore python 2.7 and so

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leave it be, don't uninstall it and

simply click on this package that

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you had just downloaded you should see

the installation wizard so simply go

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and click continue, continue, continue

again and read the license if you like.

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I'm going to go and click on agree and than

install provide your user name in there, your

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Mac user name, click on install software

and so finally the installation was

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smooth and it was successful, click on

Close, I'm going to move it to trash.

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So the installation package and now go

ahead and go back to terminal, so

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again if you enter Python you're going

to get Python 2.7, so how do you get

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Python 3? Well exit and simply click

Python 3 just like that execute and

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you'll see that this is Python 3.6.

And yeah good luck. And so normally this

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is the command you will be using on Mac

which means whenever I type Python on

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Windows you're going to type Python 3 on

Mac or Linux as easy as that, so now you

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have Python installed and here you can

do operations, you know you get the idea.

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However please note that what we do here

we programming interactively so we're

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simply writing some lines with code but

these lines will not be saved anywhere if

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we write them in this interactive

Session, so what we want to do is we want

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to write scripts of code, so Python files

which we can save, we can save the code

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and we can execute all the lines at one

and we'll be doing that in the next

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lecture so please follow me and I hope

it works for you and I'll talk to you in

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the next lecture.

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