network to recognize and predict the correct label for the digit displayed while you won' need prior experience in practical deep learning or tensorflow to follow along with this tutorialwe'll assume some familiarity with machine learning terms and concepts such as training and testingfeatures and labelsoptimizationand evaluation prerequisites to complete this tutorialyou'll need local or remote python development environment that includes pip for installing python packagesand venv for creating virtual environments step -configuring the project before you can develop the recognition programyou'll need to install few dependencies and create workspace to hold your files we'll use python virtual environment to manage our project' dependencies create new directory for your project and navigate to the new directorymkdir tensorflow-demo cd tensorflow-demo execute the following commands to set up the virtual environment for this tutorialpython - venv tensorflow-demo source tensorflow-demo/bin/activate