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===Download the ColorWall project===
You'll be writing graphical effects for an existing ColorWall
# Create a new folder called ColorWall on your Desktop
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#* http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/ColorWall/wall.py
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Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop/ColorWall directory where the ColorWall code lives. For example, if the ColorWall project is at <code>C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\ColorWall</code>,
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We've written some skeleton code for the Twitter project already. Download this code so you're ready to start working with it tomorrow:▼
cd C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\ColorWall
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will change you into that directory, and
# Create a new folder called Twitter on your Desktop▼
# Save http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/twitter_api.py to the Twitter folder.▼
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dir
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will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "run.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
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python run.py
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at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script. You should see a window pop up and start cycling through colorful effects. If you don't, let a staff member know.
===Success!===
You've completed setup for the ColorWall project.
==Wordplay==
We've written some skeleton code for the Wordplay project already. Download this code so you're ready to start working with it tomorrow:
# Create a new folder called Wordplay on your Desktop
# Save http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Wordplay/words.py to the Wordplay folder.
# Save http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Wordplay/words.txt to the Wordplay folder.
===Test the Wordplay code===
Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop/Wordplay directory where the Wordplay code lives. For example, if the Wordplay project is at <code>C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\Wordplay</code>,
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cd C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\Wordplay
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will change you into that directory, and
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dir
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will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "words.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
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python words.py
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at the command prompt to execute the words.py Python script. You should see a column of English words printed to the screen. If you don't, let a staff member know.
===Success!===
You've completed setup for the Wordplay project.
==Twitter==
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<li>Click and save these four dependencies to your
* http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/httplib2-0.6.0.zip
* http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/python-oauth2.zip▼
* http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/simplejson-2.1.6.zip
* http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/python-twitter-0.8.2.zip
▲* http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/python-oauth2.zip
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The ".zip" extension on the above files indicates that they are compressed Zip archives. We need to "extract" their contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your
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===Install the Twitter project dependencies===
Each of these 4 dependencies has an installer script that we'll need to run at a command prompt to install the software. For each project, start a command prompt and navigate to the
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cd C:\Users\jesstess\
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will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "setup.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script.
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and hit enter to install httplib2.
Navigate to the 3 other dependency directories and run
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in all of them to install those dependencies as well.
▲We've written some skeleton code for the Twitter project already. Download this code so you're ready to start working with it tomorrow:
▲# Create a new folder called Twitter on your Desktop
▲# Save http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/twitter_api.py to the Twitter folder.
===Test the Twitter code===
Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop/Twitter directory where the Twitter code lives. For example, if the Twitter project is at <code>C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\Twitter</code>,
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cd C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\Twitter
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will change you into that directory, and
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▲===Download the Workshop Twitter code===
dir
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will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "twitter_api.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
▲We've written some skeleton code for the Twitter project already. Download this code so you're ready to start working with it tomorrow:
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▲# Create a new folder called Twitter on your Desktop
python twitter_api.py --search=python
▲# Save http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/Twitter/twitter_api.py to the Twitter folder.
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at the command prompt to execute the twitter_api.py Python script. You should the text from 20 tweets containing the word "Python" printed to the screen. If you don't, let a staff member know.
===Success!===
You've completed setup for the Twitter project.
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