pythontricities / starthere

This is a demo for the PythonTriCities Interest Group to learn how to git

PythonTriCities demo starthere.

This is a simple demo to make sure our users have Python3 set up and working

Prerequisites

• python3 (Python is an open source general progarmming language https://wiki.python.org/moin/)
• git (Git is a version control system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git)
• Also an editor of your choice to look at the code https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

Getting Started

1. Make sure you have Python3 installed. Follow these guides:

• Linux Box:
• Windows Box:
• macOS box:

2. Make sure you have git installed.

• How to install git

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/PythonTriCities/starthere.git

• If you had trouble with the git install or just want to download the files as a zip, click this link starthere

The next 2 steps are optional but recommended

3. Create the virtual environment if it doesn't exist:

• What/'s a virtual environment?

• On Linux/Mac it is: python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment

• I like to set the path to be in the directory with a folder that shows the version of Python that I am running, so I include the python version I am using in the path

python3 -m venv ./.venv/python3.6

• On Windows it is c:>c:\Python35\python -m venv c:\path\to\myenv

c:\>c:\Python35\python -m venv c:\path\to\myenv

4. Start your virtual environment.

• Linux/Mac:

source ./.venv/bin/activate

• Windows:

c:\path\to\myenv\Scripts\activate.bat

5. Test that it is not legacy Python, ie 2.7

python --version

• You should see something like this:

Python 3.6.4

6. Now from the starthere folder run the first.py script

python first.py

• If all went well you should see:

Please type in a name: 

Running the tests

No test for this script, but we will cover that in later examples

Versioning

Use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• John M - Initial work - TechSolX

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Help from the internets, stackoverflow, users group members, etc...

Test your git ability by adding your Github link here:

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