pycamp

Homeschool camp projects for learning python.

You will need

Python

The python language runtime, compiler and interpreter. https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.5/python-3.7.5-webinstall.exe

Git

This is a source control management client you will use to interact with source code repositories, including the pycamp lessons Download from https://git-scm.com/download/ and make sure to inlcude the 'git_bash' option.

You can get ("git") all of the code from pycamp repository using git clone <repository_url>, which in this case is

git clone https://github.com/gbegley/pycamp.git

Once you've cloned the repository, you can begin modifying, and committing code using

git add <file>

and

git commit -m "Some message" <file_or_directory>

Running python from "git-bash"

Add the following to your home directory ~/.bash_profile

function maybe_python37() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        winpty /c/code/soft/py/python37-32/python -i
    else
       /c/code/soft/py/python37-32/python $@
    fi
}

alias python=maybe_python37

winpty is a program that causes other win32 applications to interact with the termal Input/Output.

Atom IDE

IDE stands for "Integrated Development Environment", and you can download the AtomIDE from https://atom.io/packages/atom-ide-ui. The Atom IDE has built in support for git and git hub.

You can add "python language specific" support to the Atom IDE from https://atom.io/packages/ide-python

Using a git repository

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/gbegley/pycamp.git

Add a file to the repository

Create a file named hello.txt, for example, by echo some text into a file

echo "Hello from the echo command." > hello.txt

You will now have a file called hello.txt that can be added to the local repository using git add <file>, which in this case will be

git add hello.txt

git will now be tracking the file hello.txt. Git is aware of the file, but you need to commit the added file before it will truely be in the repository, using

git commit -m "some message" <file>

git commit -m "Added hello" hello.txt

The new file is now part of the repository.

Push the changes back to the server

You can push the change to the origin repository (The repository you clone at the start) using git push

git push