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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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cd C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\ColorWall
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cd C:\Users\jesstess\Desktop\Wordplay
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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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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.▼
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!===
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