The activities will assume that you have certain things running and working on your machine. Here some common issues that we have encountered, which you might want to learn more about:
Many of the exercises here will describe ways to do things from the "command line." That's the way to describe interacting with your computer using text-based commands rather than the more common graphical interface (GUI) where you can click, drag, open folders and directories, etc.
Pip is a python package that helps you to install and configure new python extensions and libraries. You may find that pip commands don't work. If that happens, try installing or updating pip:
- To see if you have pip, try typing
pipfrom the command line. - Advice on installing packages from PyPA, including specific advice on https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#ensure-you-can-run-pip-from-the-command-line