Install Python

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video, we're going to download and install Python.
• 00:07 So you can head over to Google and just type in Python and
• 00:11 the first thing that pops up should be Python.org.
• 00:14 Or you can just go ahead and type Python.org into your web browser and
• 00:18 you see this is the official Python website.
• 00:20 So to download Python, you just come over here to this download link and
• 00:24 kind of hover your mouse over it and this will pop up.
• 00:27 Now I'm on a Windows computer so it's showing me the Download for Windows.
• 00:31 If you're on Mac or Linux, you'll see the Download for Mac or Linux.
• 00:34 So we see here Python 3.8.0 now that's the current version of Python.
• 00:39 If that changes by the time you watch this video, absolutely no big deal,
• 00:42 you could just go ahead and download the latest version.
• 00:44 So to download this, all we have to do is click this button.
• 00:47 Now I'm on Google Chrome and you can see the Download appears down here.
• 00:51 If you're on Firefox, the web browser,
• 00:53 the downloads will appear up here in the right corner.
• 00:56 There's a little arrow that pops up whatever web browser you're using just go
• 01:00 ahead and click this.
• 01:01 And you can see install Python 3.8, the installation wizard pops up right here.
• 01:05 The next thing to notice is up here at the top it says install Python 3.8.0 (32-bit).
• 01:11 Now this freaks out a lot of people because you and
• 01:14 probably everyone else on the planet has a 64-bit computer.
• 01:18 And people see this and go wait a second,
• 01:20 I've got a 64-bit computer I need the 64-bit version of Python.
• 01:23 Now there is a 64-bit version of Python, but
• 01:27 I'd say 99% of the time the 32-bit version is what you want.
• 01:32 Even if you're doing super advanced things,
• 01:34 you still probably want the 32-bit version.
• 01:36 So if you see that don't freak out, don't think you have to have the 64-bit version.
• 01:41 In fact, when we go to python.org, and click on the Download thing like we did,
• 01:45 the 32-bit version is the one that it throws up by default.
• 01:49 Because that's the default version that everyone uses,
• 01:51 it's the default version that you want.
• 01:53 Now this is very important down here this box is unchecked by default.
• 01:58 It says add Python 3.8 to PATH, we definitely want to check this box.
• 02:03 And what the PATH does is it allows Python to run from anywhere on your computer.
• 02:08 Otherwise, Python will only be allowed to run in the Python directory.
• 02:12 And we don't want that we want Python to be able to run from anywhere on our
• 02:15 computer, so make sure this is checked.
• 02:17 It's absolutely important.
• 02:19 So once you've checked that, come up here and just click Install Now.
• 02:22 And I'm going to go ahead and Cancel this, because I've already installed Python
• 02:26 on my computer, but you'll just wait for this bar to finish doing its thing.
• 02:30 And then you can close it after that and that's all there is to it.
• 02:33 So it's just that easy to install Python on a Windows computer.
• 02:37 Pretty straightforward and that's really all there is to it.
• 02:40 So in the next video, we'll go ahead and download and
• 02:42 install the Sublime Text Editor.
• 02:44 The thing we'll use to actually write our code and
• 02:46 that'll be coming up in the next video.
• 02:48 [BLANK AUDIO]

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