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Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints

By : Pradeeka Seneviratne
Book Image

Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints

By: Pradeeka Seneviratne

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting started with Python


Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, and high-level computer programming language with very powerful features that's easy to learn because of its simple syntax. For this project, we can easily write an interface between Twitter and Arduino using the Python script.

Installing Python on Windows

The following steps will explain how to install Python on a Windows computer:

  1. Visit https://www.python.org/.

  2. Click on Downloads | Windows.

    The Python home page

  3. Then, you will navigate to the Python Releases for Windows web page:

    The Python download page

  4. Python can be downloaded from two development branches: legacy and present. The legacy releases are labeled as 2.x.x, and present releases are labeled as 3.x.x. (For reference, the major difference of 2.7.x and 3.0 can be found at http://learntocodewith.me/programming/python/python-2-vs-python-3/). Click on the latest (see the date) Windows x86-64-executable installer to download the executable installer setup file to your local...