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 AWS From Scratch 01 - creating an account In this series of blogs I'll go through everything you need to know to setup AWS. Setting up an Account The very first thing you will need to do is setup an AWS account. Open your web browser and navigate to https://aws.amazon.com/ , then click on the "Create an AWS Account" button. Creating an Account Name This will bring up a form asking for a "Root user email address" and "AWS account name".  The root user is the super user for the AWS account you are creating. You'll need to provide a valid email address for the root user incase you ever need to reset your password. The AWS account name is just a name that you will associate with this new account. If it is a personal account that you are using for learning AWS you can call it something like "AlexLearningAWS" or if you would like this to be the account used for a business you are creating, you can call it something like "CookieCuttersByAl...

Create a virtual environment called arcade using python3.8.2 % pyenv virtualenv 3.8.2 arcade Create a project directory for arcade development % mkdir -p ~/Projects/arcade Download the arcade template zip file from GitHub https://github.com/pythonarcade/template Unzip the template and move the contents to the newly created arcade project folder Set the virtual environment for the project % cd ~/Projects/arcade % pyenv local arcade Update pip (arcade) % pip install --upgrade pip Install arcade (arcade) % pip install arcade

OS X Python Local Development Setup 2020 This assumes you are using ZShell and this is a brand new mac. Install homebrew Install pyenv % brew install pyenv Create a startup file for zshell and add a command to initialize pyenv % echo -e 'if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then\n  eval "$(pyenv init -)"\nfi' >> ~/.zshrc Install Xcode command line tools % xcode-select --install Install recommended packages for pyenv % brew install sqlite3 xz zlib Use pyenv to install the latest version of python 3 % pyenv install 3.8.2 Set the latest python version as the default global version % pyenv global 3.8.2 Install python virtual environment management tool % brew install pyenv-virtualenv Add these lines to the end of the ~/.zshrc file to initialize pyenv-virtualenv if which pyenv-virtualenv-init > /dev/null; then   eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)" fi