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Software Needed for the class

This course uses Python 3. While you may use any Python environment for your assignments and projects, the TA's will be grading using Python 3.8x on an Ubuntu machine. Some of these software resources might come in useful.
  1. The VirtualBox VM
  2. Getting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  3. Getting started with VirtualBox
  4. Standard Python is already installed on Ubuntu. If you need to, you can install Python
  5. To install additional libraries, we recommend using pip3. To install, on the ubuntu terminal, use the command:
    sudo apt-get install python3-pip
  6. We will be running python from the terminal. If you wish to use an IDE, we recommendd Pycharm. It is avaiable for free with a JetBrains student license. If you install an IDe, please make sure your homewokr programs work as expected from a terminal before you turn them in.