From the course: Learning Python (2021)

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How to run the Python examples

How to run the Python examples - Python Tutorial

From the course: Learning Python (2021)

How to run the Python examples

- [Instructor] During this course, we're going to be building and running some example programs. And, as I demonstrated earlier, I'll be using Visual Studio Code during this course. And we've seen how to get that set up in a previous video, but using VS Code isn't required. You can use any editor you want, and it's important to know how to run Python programs outside of the development environment that you're using. So, here's what we're going to do. First, open the terminal program for your computer. On the Mac and Linux this is usually called terminal. On Windows this is either PowerShell, or the regular command prompt. Now, it's beyond the scope of this course to explain how the terminal works. So if you're not familiar with it, you'll need to read up on it on your own. From here, let's go into the exercise files directory, which is wherever you put it. So here, on my system it's on the desktop. So, I'm going to go into…

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