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Linux is a varied operating system with many different ways to install software. I’m
assuming if you are running Linux then you know how to install packages, so here
are your instructions:
1. Use your package manager to install Python 3.6, and if you can’t, then
download source from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360/
and build from source.
2. Use your Linux package manager, and install the Atom text editor. If Atom
does not suit you, then see the Alternative Text Editors section at the end of
this exercise.
3. Make sure you can get to Atom easily by putting it in your window manager’s
menu.
4. Find your Terminal program. It could be called GNOME Terminal,
Konsole, or xterm.
5. Put your Terminal in your dock as well.
6. Run your Terminal program. It won’t look like much.
7. In your Terminal program, run python3.6. You run things in
Terminal by just typing the command name and pressing Enter. If you
can’t run python3.6, try running just python.
8. Type quit() and press Enter to exit python.
9. You should be back at a prompt similar to what you had before you typed
python. If not, find out why.
10. Learn how to make a directory in Terminal.
11. Learn how to change into a directory in Terminal.
12. Use your editor to create a file in this directory. Typically, you will make the
file, Save or Save As..., and pick this directory.
13. Go back to Terminal using just the keyboard to switch windows. Look it up if
you can’t figure it out.
14. Back in Terminal, list the directory to see your newly created file.
Linux is a varied operating system with many different ways to install software. I’m
assuming if you are running Linux then you know how to install packages, so here
are your instructions:
1. Use your package manager to install Python 3.6, and if you can’t, then
download source from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360/
and build from source.
2. Use your Linux package manager, and install the Atom text editor. If Atom
does not suit you, then see the Alternative Text Editors section at the end of
this exercise.
3. Make sure you can get to Atom easily by putting it in your window manager’s
menu.
4. Find your Terminal program. It could be called GNOME Terminal,
Konsole, or xterm.
5. Put your Terminal in your dock as well.
6. Run your Terminal program. It won’t look like much.
7. In your Terminal program, run python3.6. You run things in
Terminal by just typing the command name and pressing Enter. If you
can’t run python3.6, try running just python.
8. Type quit() and press Enter to exit python.
9. You should be back at a prompt similar to what you had before you typed
python. If not, find out why.
10. Learn how to make a directory in Terminal.
11. Learn how to change into a directory in Terminal.
12. Use your editor to create a file in this directory. Typically, you will make the
file, Save or Save As..., and pick this directory.
13. Go back to Terminal using just the keyboard to switch windows. Look it up if
you can’t figure it out.
14. Back in Terminal, list the directory to see your newly created file.
