Python tutorial 5: How to Setup Atom Editor for Python Programming By Manish Sharma

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what's up Internet i am manish from rebellionrider.com in greece tutorial i will be installing the atom editor for the upcoming Python programming tutorials so without wasting much of your time let's start but before that hit the thumbs up button and like the video most importantly subscribe to the channel if you haven't already now let's start getting an installing an atom editor is pretty simple just visit Adam's website which is atom dot IO and click this big download button it will automatically download the latest version of the atom editor which is best suitable for your operating system hassle-free isn't it the file is about 139 MB in size depending on your internet speed download might take some time ok the setup file has been downloaded successfully next we have to install the editor installing the editor is very simple but configuring atom editor for Python programming may require a little bit of work around we will talk about the configuration later but first let's install it to install the atom editor first look at the setup dot exe file which you just downloaded in my case it is located inside the download folder next you simply have to double-click and start the installation that's all you have to do I guess it is the easiest installation one can ever want right the Installer will launch the atom editor once it is done installing it installation might take some time thus I will fast forward the video here installation is done now we will configure this atom editor for our Python programming so let's close all these welcome screens and guides and move ahead done as we know that atom is an editor which means using it we can write and save our code but it will not help us in executing that code to do that we either need to take the help of some other software or use the command prompt as demonstrated in the previous tutorial in case if you don't know what is an editor and an IDE then I have done a brief note explaining the differences between them on my Facebook page do check it out link is in the description anyways wouldn't it be great if we can write save and execute our Python program directly through this atom editor well my dear friends the good news is that we can configure this editor to do that let's see how to configure the atom editor to execute our Python program in order to run a Python program using the editor we need to install a plugin the name of the plugin is a script let's install it to do that you first need to go to the file menu and then settings next you have to select the install option from the left hand side panel here you have to search for the desired plug-in before you start searching make sure the option packages is selected and you are connected to the Internet once you ensure both these criteria then search for the package by writing its name into this search box the name of the package which we want to install is a script let's search it here it is the first option go ahead and press this install button the installation of this package usually takes some time thus once again I will fast forward the video here installation done now if you click the Settings button and scroll down a little bit then you can find all the keyboard shortcuts of this plugin for example to execute your Python program you can press command + I + Mac and shift ctrl P in Windows and similarly there are other keyboard shortcuts which you can use for this Python programming series this will be my setup although there are many other awesome plugins available but I will not be installing those as this will be enough for me before we wind up let's quickly check if this setup works or not let's create a new file by pressing ctrl + n first we need to save let's name this file check dot py now let's write a test code which will be a simple print statement I think the font is slightly smaller let's increase it to increase the font size press down the control key on your keyboard and use scroll up using the scroll button of your mouse I think that is good now let's execute this code if you remember the keyboard shortcut for executing the code was shift ctrl + B let's use this combination to run this code and here is our output okay the output is almost invisible as the font size is tiny formatting the output requires a little bit of work so let's do it in a separate video so in the next video I will show you how to format the text of the output in the atom editor I guess that's it for this tutorial hope you enjoyed watching please hit the thumbs up button and like this video also share it with your friends on your social media and most importantly subscribe to the channel if you haven't already see you in the next video till then take care this is manish from rebellionrider.com