Prerequisites

The only main prerequisite for using OpenAI Gym is Python 3.5+. To make further development easy and organized, we will use the Anaconda Python distribution. For those of you who are not familiar with Anaconda, it is a Python distribution(although a distribution for the R language is also available) that includes hundreds of popular machine learning and data science packages and comes with an easy-to-use package and virtual environment manager calledconda.The good thing is that the Anaconda Python distribution is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows! Another main reason to use the Anaconda distribution is that it helps in easily creating, installing, managing, and upgrading an isolated Python virtual environment. This makes ...

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