Download code from GitHub
Discover Your AI Toolkit
In the previous chapter, you began your AI journey. Before you continue it, you need your AI toolkit. This book is not just theory; it also contains an easy-to-use toolkit of all the AI models as Python files, ready to run thanks to the amazing Google Colaboratory platform that you will also be introduced to in this chapter.
To fill your AI toolkit, I've prepared a GitHub page containing all the AI implementations for you to download, and Google Colab links of the Python notebooks containing the implementations, all ready to execute via an easy plug and play process.
The GitHub page
You will find all the code for this book ready for you to download from the following GitHub page:
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/AI-Crash-Course
To download the code, you simply need to click the Clone or download button, and then Download Zip:
Figure 1: The GitHub repository
Then, once you've downloaded these codes, feel free to open them with your favorite Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE), whether it's Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, a simple text editor, or even your terminal.
If you've never coded with Python before and have no idea of how to open the files with a Python editor, then no problem; I've prepared the best and simplest solution for you: Colaboratory (or Google Colab).
Colaboratory
Colaboratory is a free and open source environment for Python development that requires no setup and runs entirely on the cloud. It contains all the pre-installed packages required for your AI implementations so that they are ready to run with a simple plug and play process. By plug, I just mean to copy and paste the code inside a new Colab file (I'll explain how to open one next), and by play, I just mean to click on the play button (an example of that follows).
Here is the link to the main page of Colaboratory:
https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb
You should get a page like this:
Figure 2: Colaboratory – main page
Click File in the upper left, and then click New Python 3 notebook:
Figure 3: Colaboratory – opening a notebook
Then you will get this view. Paste your Python code inside the cell (red arrow). That's the "plug" part:
Figure 4: Colaboratory – the...
Summary
In this chapter, you packed your luggage with our AI toolkit, which included not only the many AI models of this book, but also the very user-friendly Google Colaboratory environment. You saw how easy it was to plug and play our models from GitHub to Colaboratory. Now you just need coding skills to make you ready to begin the real journey. In the next chapter, you will have a chance to learn—or brush up on—your Python fundamentals.
