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Set-up instructions for Windows 10/11

Welcome to Windows 10/11 set up guide!

Your first step in this journey is to carefully read the steps in this tutorial. You'll learn how to set up your computer. This section deals with setting up Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10/11. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enables you to run Linux command line inside Windows.

Step 1: Follow this guide to setup WSL on Windows 10/11.

Step 2: Open a terminal (remember this!!) and run the following command. It will install git. Git is a version control software that facilitates collaboration of people working together on the same code and keeps track of the versions as the code changes. You will learn more about git in Week 02 of this course.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install git

Step 3: Open a terminal (remember this!!) and run the following commands to setup `Python 3.12.

Step 3.1: Add the deadsnakes repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

Step 3.2: Run the following commands to install Python 3.12:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3.12 -y

Step 3.3: Run the following command to check that Python 3.12 is installed.

python3.12 --version

If your version is Python 3.12.x (x = any number), everything worked out fine.

Step 4 Run the following command to get pip and venv. pip is a package manager - it will help you easily install software. venv is a software for creating virtual environments (we will come back to what this means in the next set up step):

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install libpython3-dev python3-pip python3.12-venv -y

And you're done! Go back to the main menu and continue with setting up Git and GitHub in step 3.