Introduction to Python for Non-Engineers

This presentation closely follows "Automate the boring stuff with Python" written by Al Sweigart. The book is published under a Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

This presentation is published under that same license.

Installation

• The slides can be seen with reveal, follow the setup instructions here: https://revealjs.com/installation/#basic-setup
• Setup from here on in will probably depend on your system. Here's the steps which worked on an M1 mac in 2023:

npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install grunt --save-dev
npm install -g node-gyp
nvm install 8
nvm use 8
npm install

• Once you're set up sucessfully you should be able to run npm start and see the slided on http://localhost:8000/#/