1SETTING THE STAGE

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Although this book has no traditional math exercises, we do need to play around with the concepts if we want to master them. We’ll have plenty of opportunities for that, but instead of pencil and paper exercises, we’ll use code.

This chapter will help you set the stage by configuring our working environment. Throughout the book, I’ll work in Linux, specifically Ubuntu 20.04, though what we’re doing most likely will work in later versions of Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions as well. For completeness, I’ve included sections on configuring macOS and Windows environments. I should point out that the expected operating system ...

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