You need a working PC or laptop, preferably with a modern Linux operating system. The installation instructions are written and tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and would work on any recent Debian-based Linux operating system without modification. We developed for Python 3. However, we have maintained backward-compatibility with Python 2 in our recipes as much as we can. On the other hand, some open source projects used in this book do not yet support Python 3. So, ideally, you will need both Python 2 and Python 3 to test all the recipes in this book.
Most of the recipes in this book will run on other platforms such as Windows and Mac OS with some changes in the configuration steps. Some of the recipes require two or ...
