Software Needed

• You need to install 3 software pavkages on your computer
  • An SSH client
  • FileZilla
  • The latest version of Python
• An SSH client allows you to log in to a Unix machine from your computer
• Mac OS comes with an SSH client already installed
• It is called Terminal and you will find it in the Utilities folder ...
• inside the Applications folder
• There are many free SSH clients available for Windows users
• A very popular one is putty.exe which can be downloaded here
• FileZilla makes it easy to move files from your machine to a Unix machine
• You can download it here
• You can download the latest version of Python here
• Python comes with an program called IDLE that you should use to write Python programs