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‎about-author.html‎

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beginners learn to program with the language. There are so many resources
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how it fits one's learning purpose. </p>
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<p>Looking for information on Python development environments? There's a
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<a href="/development-environments.html">whole other page for editors and IDEs</a>.</p>
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<h2>New to programming</h2>
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<h3>Those resources should help get you started. What's next?</h3>
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<h1>Development Environments</h1>
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<p>A development environment is a combination of a text editor and the Python
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interpreter. The text editor allows you to write the code. The interpreter
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provides a way to execute the code you've written. A text editor can be
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as simple as Notepad on Windows or more complicated as a complete integrated
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<h2>Why is a development environment necessary?</h2>
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interpreter allows it to be executed. Testing to see if the code does what
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you want can either be done manually or by unit and functional tests. </p>
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<h2>A full development environment example</h2>
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<p>Here's what I (the author of Full Stack Python,
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<a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a>) use to develop most of my Python
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applications. I have a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X as its base operating
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system. <a href="/operating-systems.html">Ubuntu 14.04 LTS</a> is virtualized on top
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with <a href="https://www.parallels.com/">Parallels</a>. My code is written in
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<a href="http://www.vim.org/">vim</a> and executed with the
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<a href="https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.8/">Python 2.7.x</a> interpreter
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via the command line. I use virtualenv to create separate Python interpreters
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<a href="http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">virtualenvwrapper</a>
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to quickly switch between the interpreters created by virtualenv.</p>
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<p>That's a common set up but you can certainly write great code with a much
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<h2>Open source development environments</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.vim.org/">vim</a> is my editor of choice and installed by default
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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">emacs</a> is another editor often used
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<li><a href="http://pydev.org/">PyDev</a> is a Python IDE plug in for
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<h2>Hosted development environment services</h2>
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<p>In the past couple of years several cloud-based development environments
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a machine with only a browser but no way to install your own software. Most
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of these have free tiers for getting started and paid tiers as you scale
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up your application.</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.nitrous.io/">Nitrous.io</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://c9.io/">Cloud9</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.terminal.com/">Terminal</a></li>
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<li>If you're considering the cloud-based development environment route, check
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