Installing The Git Bash Terminal

Quick reference

• 00:05 Okay, so we've installed Python now we need one more major tool in order to do
• 00:09 data analysis with Python, and that's a terminal and
• 00:11 Windows comes with a couple of terminals, the command prompt and the PowerShell.
• 00:15 Mac and Linux come with their own terminal.
• 00:18 And if you're on Mac or Linux, you can absolutely use the terminal that comes
• 00:21 with Mac or Linux to just go to the little search function on your computer,
• 00:24 type in terminal and it'll work.
• 00:26 For us Windows users, it's better for
• 00:28 us to download a better terminal than the command prompt or the PowerShell.
• 00:32 And so that's what we're going to do in this video.
• 00:33 So head over to Google and type in git bash, that's G-I-T, B-A-S-H, two words.
• 00:40 And it's usually not the first thing that pops up.
• 00:42 It's usually the second one.
• 00:43 We'll look at the URL.
• 00:45 It's git-scm.com/downloads.
• 00:48 If you just want to punch that straight into your browser, that's okay too.
• 00:52 And now notice we're on version 2.25.0.
• 00:54 If that's a different version, by the time you watch this video, no big deal at all,
• 00:57 just download whatever the latest version is.
• 00:59 And you'll notice it comes in Windows, Mac or Linux.
• 01:02 So if you do have a Mac or Linux, you can download this tool and
• 01:06 just follow along with me.
• 01:08 That way, you don't have to use the terminal that comes with Mac or Linux.
• 01:10 But like I said, you absolutely can.
• 01:12 So, we just come over to this download button and go ahead and click it.
• 01:16 And we can save this file anywhere.
• 01:18 I'm going to save it to my desktop.
• 01:19 And again, I've already downloaded this in the past, so it's confirming.
• 01:24 When it finishes downloading, if you're on Firefox, it's going to
• 01:27 be up here in the top right hand corner where this little blue arrow is.
• 01:30 If you're using the Chrome web browser, it's going to be down here or
• 01:33 you could just navigate to your Windows desktop.
• 01:35 It'll be saved there as well.
• 01:37 So I'm going to go ahead and click this and then go ahead and open this.
• 01:43 And when we do, this is the screen that pops up.
• 01:45 Now there are a lot of installation screens for this installation wizard.
• 01:49 And I know there's like 10 of them or something.
• 01:51 And we just want the defaults for all of them.
• 01:53 So we could just keep clicking next until we're done with the installation.
• 01:58 One thing I will mention,
• 01:59 the second one right here, it's asking us what text editor we're going to be using?
• 02:03 And we're actually not using any text editor.
• 02:06 So we don't have to come in here and find one or
• 02:08 pick one, we just leave it as the default because it doesn't apply to us at all.
• 02:12 So click next., and then next again, and then next again.
• 02:17 Next, next, next, a lot of screens on this installation.
• 02:21 Next, and like I said, we just want the defaults for all of them.
• 02:24 And then finally click Install.
• 02:26 Now I'm going to click cancel and get out of here because I've already installed
• 02:29 this but you will go ahead and just click Install.
• 02:31 And then you'll get a little taskbar that sort of
• 02:34 shows you the progress while it finishes installing.
• 02:36 When it finishes, you can close out of that and you're done.
• 02:39 So that's all there is to the get bash terminal installation.
• 02:43 In order to use this, just go to your Windows start menu and type in G-I-T.
• 02:48 And the Git Bash terminal app icon will pop up, so go ahead and click that.
• 02:53 And when you do, this will pop up, this is the terminal.
• 02:56 So, if you've never used this terminal before, no big deal, I'll show you all
• 03:00 the commands we need to use, and we're not going to be using this a whole lot,
• 03:03 we just need to issue a couple of commands to install a few things behind the scenes,
• 03:08 for instance, Jupyter Notebooks and some different Python modules, NumPy,
• 03:13 Pandas, things like that.
• 03:14 We'll install those things from this terminal but
• 03:17 this is the terminal very cool very simple and straightforward and easy to use.
• 03:20 You'll notice mine says codemy@codemy, yours will say something different.
• 03:24 This is just the command prompt.
• 03:26 And it's using your logged in Windows username as the command prompt here.
• 03:32 And my username is codemy, so it's listing as codemy.
• 03:35 Whatever your username on Windows is, when you first start your Windows computer,
• 03:40 you have to log in usually with a username, that's what that is.
• 03:44 So don't worry if it's different, it will be different.
• 03:47 It's not going to be codemy and no big deal.
• 03:50 So let's get bash terminal.
• 03:51 In the next video, we'll set up our virtual environment.

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