environment this is the least fun -but nevertheless critical -part of the bookwhere we walk through setting up an environment in which to write and test python we are going to do crash course in setting up kali linux virtual machine (vmand installing nice ide so that you have everything you need to develop code by the end of this you should be ready to tackle the exercises and code examples in the remainder of the book before you get startedgo ahead and download and install vmware player [ also recommend that you have some windows vms at the ready as wellincluding windows xp and windows preferably -bit in both cases