Tools

If you want to install the tools on your personal laptop.

1. Python

We are using the "mini" version of the Anaconda Python distribution, which ships as a package manager utility called conda. Installers for the conda tool can be downloaded from here.

2. Text editor

We are using Sublime Text 3, which is also free (in trial mode) and cross-platform.

3. PyGame

This can be a pain to install because it is not available on the Python Package Index. Here are recommended approaches depending on your platform:

• Windows: Use one of the Windows installers available at http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml.

• Mac OSX: Use homebrew to install the dependencies. Then install using pip.

$ brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf portmidi 
$ pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

• Linux: use your package manager to install the dependencies, and pip to install pygame from the bitbucket repository as above.