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===Download the Twitter APITwitterAPI project===
 
# Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2014/cdsw/TwitterAPI.zip
# The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your Desktop directory. Find TwitterAPI.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called TwitterAPI containing several files.
 
===Test the TwitterAPI code===
 
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\'''YOURUSERNAME'''\Desktop\ColorWall</code>,
 
cd C:\Users\'''YOURUSERNAME'''\Desktop\ColorWall
 
will change you into that directory, and
 
dir
 
will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "twitter1.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
 
python twitter1.py
 
at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script. You should see a series of Tweets run by your screen. If you don't, let a staff member know.
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