These instructions are intended to get you an environment very similar to the one you’ll be using during the Coder’s Club. Before you start:
You do not need a particularly powerful computer to program. While most programmers use ridiculously powerful machines, you can start with any old machine.
At the end of this process, you should have:
Note
You did get permission from the owner of the machine, right? Do that now.
We are going to download these packages to your computer and then run the installers we have downloaded:
You will need to click through installation warnings for each of those.
Note
Appologies up-front, this is the least pleasant environment to setup. OS-X has Python installed, but most Python packages, and particularly Pygame, don’t work well with the built-in Python interpreter.
You should follow these instructions which will set you up with a Python 3 environment, but are at least known to work.
You need the following packages on Debian/Ubuntu machines (this includes the Raspberry Pi):
You can install them at the command-prompt with:
$ sudo apt-get install python2.7 python-pygame eric