Install Sublime and Git Bash Terminal

Quick reference

• 00:04 Alright, welcome to the course.
• 00:06 My name is John Elder and I'll be your instructor today.
• 00:08 In this video, we're going to jump in and
• 00:10 start to download all the tools we need for this course.
• 00:12 Now, in order to code in Python, you need basically three things,
• 00:15 you need a text editor.
• 00:18 Something to write our code on.
• 00:19 We need a terminal something to run commands,
• 00:22 to run the code once we create it, and we need Python itself.
• 00:26 So I'm on a Windows computer.
• 00:27 If you're on a Mac or Linux, this is going to be slightly different and
• 00:29 I'll talk about that as we go along.
• 00:32 But let's just dive right in.
• 00:33 So first things first, let's download and install our text editor.
• 00:37 So I like Sublime Text.
• 00:38 It's completely free.
• 00:39 It's industry standard.
• 00:41 If you have a different text editor that you like to use, absolutely use that.
• 00:45 You don't have to use a certain text editor.
• 00:47 Any one will work.
• 00:48 So whatever you're familiar with, whatever you're comfortable with,
• 00:51 go ahead and use that.
• 00:51 So I'm going to head to Google and just type in Sublime Text.
• 00:55 And the first thing that pops up is going to sublimetext.com, click on that.
• 01:01 And notice this download for Windows.
• 01:03 I'm on Windows so it knows I'm on Windows so
• 01:06 it's giving me the Windows download link.
• 01:08 If your on Mac or Linux you can download for that as well.
• 01:11 It will probably figure out that you're on Mac or Linux and
• 01:14 it will show you the Mac or Linux download link so go ahead and do that.
• 01:17 Notice we're on Sublime Text three build 3207 if this version number changes by
• 01:22 the time you watch this video, no big deal at all just go ahead and
• 01:25 download the latest version.
• 01:26 So I'm going to click this to download and we can save this anywhere.
• 01:29 I'm just going to save it to my desktop, and I'm on Chrome so
• 01:32 the little download thing pops up right here.
• 01:35 It's finished downloading so I click it to run this.
• 01:37 If you're a different web browser like Firefox or
• 01:39 Safari, just navigate to where ever you save that file and double click it.
• 01:43 So you can go ahead and click Run.
• 01:45 And this is the installation screen very simple, we just click Next.
• 01:49 And that's it.
• 01:50 So go ahead and click Install.
• 01:51 I've already installed it on my computer so I'm not going to.
• 01:53 But you go ahead and click this button right here to finish installing,
• 01:56 it'll install automatically and you're good to go.
• 01:58 So I'm just going to cancel out of there for now.
• 02:01 Now, the next thing we need is the Git Bash terminal.
• 02:04 Now Windows has a couple of terminals that come with it, the command prompt and
• 02:08 the Powershell.
• 02:09 And you can use those, but I like the Git Bash terminal.
• 02:12 There's all kinds of other functionality, cool things in there that we can use.
• 02:16 And it's completely free so I like to use that.
• 02:18 Now if you're on a Mac or
• 02:19 a Linux, your computer already comes with a terminal that's perfectly fine.
• 02:23 Just go to the little search function on your computer and type in terminal.
• 02:27 And it'll pop right up and you can use that.
• 02:29 Absolutely feel free to use that you don't need to download this Git Bash terminal.
• 02:32 It acts very similarly to the Mac or Linux terminal.
• 02:37 Head over Google and just type in git bash for Windows users here.
• 02:41 And you can see right here git-scm.com/downloads,
• 02:45 that's what we want.
• 02:47 Know this is version 2.22.0.
• 02:50 If that version number changes by the time you watch this video, no big deal,
• 02:54 just download the latest version.
• 02:55 And notice there's also a Mac or a Linux version.
• 02:57 You can download this for Mac or Linux but again, I don't suggest you do that.
• 03:01 Just go ahead and
• 03:02 use the terminal that comes with your Mac or Linux like I just said.
• 03:05 So for Windows users click this download button right here and it pops right up.
• 03:10 Save it anywhere, I'm going to save it to my desktop.
• 03:13 And this website is notoriously slow.
• 03:16 44 megabytes, it should download instantly.
• 03:18 But you can see it's taking a couple of seconds to download.
• 03:21 It's not too bad but that's perfectly normal.
• 03:24 So we'll just wait for it to finish.
• 03:26 All right, so go ahead click this to install it, and we want to run it.
• 03:30 Now this installation is a little more tricky so I'll walk you through it.
• 03:33 There's a whole lot of screens,
• 03:35 many many screens, and we want the defaults for everything.
• 03:38 So we can just keep clicking Next throughout this whole thing but
• 03:42 I'll just walk you through it now,
• 03:43 this is kind of weird it asks which text editor your using.
• 03:46 Now we happen to be using Sublime Text which is the default,
• 03:49 if you're using a different text editor that's fine you don't have to come in here
• 03:54 and find your text editor.
• 03:55 Just leave it as Sublime, the two don't interact in anyway so
• 03:59 I'm not sure why it even asks for that.
• 04:01 So we can just ignore it, click Next and Next, Next,
• 04:06 Next, Next, Next, many Nexts, Next.
• 04:10 Okay, and then we finally get to the screen, go ahead and click Install.
• 04:14 I've already installed this, so I'm not going to do that.
• 04:16 It'll continue on, and automatically finish installing for you, and
• 04:19 that's all there is to it.
• 04:20 So I'm going to click Cancel, and get out of this, you'll click the Install button.
• 04:24 And that's it, that's our terminal, that's our text editor, now all we need to do
• 04:29 is download and install Python itself and we'll do that in the next video.

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