Setting up Your Development Environment¶
Let’s get the hands dirty by doing some setup. We will explain what you have done later. Just feel free to try it out for now :)
Download and Install Virtual Box and Ubuntu Linux¶
- Download and install Virtual Box.
- Download and add Ubuntu 64 Bit Virtual Box image into your Virtual Box. Latest version is recommended. Please refer to the web site for user name and password.
Install Kivy, Git, and PIP¶
- Start the Ubuntu. Input the username and password obtained in the last step to login. Right click desktop and choose open terminal.
- In the terminal, run the following command:
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python-kivy
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install python-pip
Intall Pycharm IDE¶
- In your Ubuntu. Open Firefox. And download Pycharm Commnity Edition for Linux
- By default, it would be saved at ~/Downloads.
- Open terminal again. Type the following:
cd ~/Downloads
tar xvzf pycharm*.tar.gz
rm pycharm*.tar.gz
mv pycharm* ~/pycharm
Running PyCharm¶
- Open terminal.
- Run Pycharm in terminal by:
~/pycharm/bin/pycharm.sh
If PyCharm asked for Key binding / mappings, choose Eclipse for the sake of this course.
In the next section. You will learn about what you have just setup.