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Ashwin Pajankar
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Ashwin Pajankar

Ashwin Pajankar is an author, a YouTuber, and an instructor. He graduated from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, with an MTech in Computer Science and Engineering. He has been writing programs for over two and a half decades. He is proficient in Linux, Unix shell scripting, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, Golang, HTML, and assembly language. He has worked on single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi and Banana Pro. He is also proficient with microcontroller boards such as Arduino and the BBC Micro:bit. He is currently self-employed and teaches on Udemy and YouTube. He also organizes programming boot camps for working professionals and software companies.
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Installation and the environment setup on Windows, Debian, and Ubuntu

We can demonstrate all the areas we have learned on other desktop computers with the Windows and Linux OSes. Only the part related to the Raspberry Pi camera module will not work with the other computers as desktop motherboards usually do not come with DSI ports. We can also run the code examples on other single-board computers that run Debian or Ubuntu.

The process to install the packages is the same on Ubuntu, Debian, and their derivatives. All the modern Linux distributions come with Python 3. We just need to use the apt and pip3 tools for installation.

For a Windows PC, we need to install everything from scratch. Let's get started with understanding how to install Python 3 by taking the following steps:

  1. Visit www.python.org and download the installation file for the latest Python 3 release:

    Figure 13.12 – The Python Foundation home page

    Run the downloaded setup file. It will open an installation...

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Ashwin Pajankar

Ashwin Pajankar is an author, a YouTuber, and an instructor. He graduated from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, with an MTech in Computer Science and Engineering. He has been writing programs for over two and a half decades. He is proficient in Linux, Unix shell scripting, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, Golang, HTML, and assembly language. He has worked on single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi and Banana Pro. He is also proficient with microcontroller boards such as Arduino and the BBC Micro:bit. He is currently self-employed and teaches on Udemy and YouTube. He also organizes programming boot camps for working professionals and software companies.
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