Django for Designers/Laptop setup

Goal #1: Set up git

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #2: Practice navigating the computer from a command prompt

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #3: Set up Python

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #4: Prepare a text editor

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #5: Prepare the workshop code, via git

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #6: Create a special Python environment for the workshop

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #7: Checkoff
Demonstrate to your own satisfaction that the following things work:


 * 1) You can open a command prompt.
 * 2) You can use cd to get around.
 * 3) You can run git and see a help message (rather than "Command not found").
 * 4) You can run python in the command prompt.
 * 5) You have a text editor configured to use spaces to indent instead of tabs.
 * 6) You have done the git clone command to get the workshop code.
 * 7) You have a virtualenv where you have installed the workshop's dependencies.

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