Set up the environment

This page explains how to prepare the workstation for using the product

To use the stater, Python3 should be installed properly and accessible in the terminal window. If you are not sure if Python is properly installed, please open a terminal and type python --version.

python --version
Python 3.8.4      <--- OUTPUT    

Other tools that are optional but recommended:

• 👉 A modern editor - VSCode or Atom

• 👉 Nodejs - used in Javascript-based products and tools

• 👉 Yarn - a popular package manager for NodeJS (better than NPM)

• 👉 GIT - a command-line tool used to download sources from Github

• 👉 Gulp - a toolkit to automate repetitive tasks

Python

Python is a general-purpose coding language—which means that, unlike HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it can be used for other types of programming and software development besides web development. Python is interpreted, easy to learn surrounded by a huge ecosystem, actively supported and used in many industries and domains. Can be used for things like (starting from the simple ones):

• Basic programming: using strings, adding numbers, opening files

• Writing system scripts (creating instructions that tell a computer system to “do” something)

• Back-end (or server-side) web and mobile app development

• Desktop apps and software development

• Processing big data and performing mathematical computations

Python can be downloaded from the official website. Choose the installer for your operating system, download it, and follow the installation steps.

Python - Download Page

VSCode

We need this software to visualize and edit the sources, execute our projects and investigate the issues that might occur during the programming process.

• 👉 VSCode - official website

• 👉 VSCode - download page

VSCode - Programming Editor