Prerequisites

Knowledge

This tutorial assumes some familiarity with Python. In particular, you should be familiar with Python’s class system, inheritance, and list comprehensions. If you are new to Python, we recommend you take a look at the Python’s Getting Started page.

You should also be familiar with the command line. If you are new to the command line, we recommend you take a look at the Software Carpentry’s Command Line tutorial.

Software

For trying the exercises in this tutorial, we recommend using GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-based development environment that is quick to set up and requires no local installation of software. All you need for this is a GitHub account. We will show you how to set up a Codespace at the relevant point in the tutorial.

Please also make sure you have Google Chrome installed, as we currently only support Chrome as a participant browser.