Gen-AI Developer Classroom notes 29/Jun/2025

Setting up Developer Environment for Building Agents

• Create a folder mkdir virtualenvdemo && cd virtualenvdemo
• Create a virtual environment python -m venv .venv
• Activate virtual environment on Terminal
  • Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
    
  • Linux/Mac
    
• Python has two types of libraries
  • Standard Library: This is shipped with python installation
  • Third Party Or Community Packages: This requires an additional installation. python has a pypi
• To install packages pip install <package-name>
• To have a way to list out all the requirements we use command pip freeze
  
• We create requirements.txt to list out all requirements pip freeze > requirements.txt
• If we have requirements.txt we can install all dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt
• Lets install necessary extensions
  • Python (Microsoft)
  • Jupyter
• In Visual studio Code lets use the virtual environment created
  • Use command pallete (Windows-Ctrl+Shift+p, Mac: Cmd+Shift+p)
  • Select the interpreter
    

Lets create a Jupyter Notebook

• Create a file with name hello.ipynb in vscode
  
  

• Using jupyter notebook we can create cells which are either markdown or code

• Watch classroom recording for visual guidance