What you should know - Python Tutorial

- [Narrator] To get the most out of this course should have some familiarity with Python and the command line. I'll be using Python 3.6. But the code should work with other Python versions with slight modifications. But if you would like to follow along with me exactly I recommend using version 3.6. But the principles you learn here are applicable to any version of Python. I'll be using packages that are not in the Python Summit library. Should know how to install third-party modules. I've included scripts to install all of the requirements needed for all of the exercises. One for installation with pip. One for installation with conda. For some exercises you need a C compiler. There are great free compilers for all major platforms Linux, GCC, Os x, Xcode and Windows Visual Studio. You should be familiar with the command line. I'll be using a Mac machine to demonstrate. But this code should work on Linux and Windows as well. The exercise files contains code and an auxiliary file is required to run them. I'll mostly be using an optimized and unoptimized version of the code in 2 different files. So you'll be able to see the differences. These files are available in the exercise file folder for reference.