From the course: Python Standard Library Essential Training

What you should know - Python Tutorial

From the course: Python Standard Library Essential Training

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] In this course, we're going to be learning about many of the great features that are provided by the Python Standard Library, and that means there are some things that you should already be familiar with before you start. First, I expect that you already have some experience programming with Python. You don't need to be an expert, but this is not the best place to start if you haven't learned basic Python programming yet. You should already know how to write functions, declare variables, and other basics of the language. You should also already have the latest revision of Python Version 3 installed on the computer that you'll be using for this course. If you need to get up to speed with any of that, you can check out Learning Python or Python Essential Training. You're also going to need to be familiar with using a text editor to write and execute code. I'm going to be using Visual Studio Code in this course because it's free, it works across platforms, and it has fantastic support for the Python language. You can download it from code.visualstudio.com. Once you've downloaded it, make sure you install the official Python extension from Microsoft by going to the VS Code extension marketplace. Now you don't need to use VS Code if you don't want to, we're just going to be editing text files, so if you already have a favorite editor, like Sublime Text or anything else, you can keep on using it and you can just run the Python examples directly from the terminal. If you want to use VS Code and need to get up to speed on it, check out Visual Studio Code for Web Developers. I've also included exercise files for the course. So be sure to download those to your local computer if you want to follow along with me in the course. I've put them on my desktop for convenience, but that's not required, you can place them anywhere you want. Once you feel comfortable with these subjects, you're ready to move on with the course.

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