It's happening after all the suspense, all my talking.
Yes, yes.
We're finally going to download Python on our machines.
Now, based on what device you're using, the installation may change, but I'll provide videos for
each one of the operating systems.
So I'm on a mac right now.
And if you're using a mac or a Linux distribution, you might have Python already installed on your
machine.
What do I mean?
Well, if you open something called your terminal, so if I'm on my Mac and do command space and I type
in terminal.
Presenter.
Well, right over here.
If I type in Python and press enter.
You see that I enter something called a ripple or a read vowel print loop.
Where I can type python commands like print.
Hello.
And look at that.
It's working just like we had our Ripple browser or website.
I can type python here and most Macs come preinstalled with Python.
But you might notice something here.
Yep.
We're using Python version 22.7 to be specific.
Now, as we've talked about, that is an older version of Python.
Ideally, we want to install Python three, so we're going to go to Python dot org and install the latest
version of Python, which is 3.7.
By the time you watch this video, there might be a higher version, maybe 3.8, 3.9.
Now, like I said, a language is always evolving.
But what I'm going to teach you in this course is going to work for any future versions of Python.
So it doesn't matter if the number is a little bit off.
As long as you're installing Python version three or up, you should be all good to go.
In our case, we're on a mac, so we're going to just click install.
And you can see over here that the package is being installed.
I'm going to open it up and just simply run through the commands.
Want to install?
Click through, continue.
Yes, I agree to the license.
I definitely read all that.
Yes, let's agree.
And we're going to just continue and install Python.
If you want to add your password or your fingerprint, that works, too.
And you see that we're finally installing our Python interpreter.
All right.
There it is.
We have Python 3.7 installed.
Now, if everything worked as planned, if I go back to my terminal and I type python.
You'll see that you have Python version 3.7 or version three or higher.
That's good.
No more Python two.
Now, depending on your machine.
Again, this is why installations can get tricky.
You might actually not have this work.
For example, in order to exit out of here, we'll say exit and then curly brackets, you might have
to type Python three.
And you'll see that you might have to specify exactly the version, because if you just do Python,
it'll be version two.
Now, if you encounter any problems installing Python on your machine, I will provide resources that
you can see attached to this video, or you can ask questions in our Discord Channel or our Q&A forum.
But it looks like we finally have our Python three installation on our computer.
Remember, we just installed our interpreter and our virtual machine.
R c python vm in order to write Python and then evaluate that python code.
Good job.
Let's take a break and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye bye.