Setting up the coding environment

In this section, we will cover how to set up a coding environment that can help us implement our applications. We need to install the gym library. These are the steps that you can follow. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as my operating system:

  • Step 1: Clone the gym repository from GitHub by executing this command: $ sudo git clone https://github.com/openai/gym.git
  • Step 2: Jump to the gym directory by executing this command: $ cd gym
  • Step 3: Execute this command to install the minimum number of required libraries for gym: $ sudo pip install -e
  • Step 4: Install the gaming environment for Atari games by executing this command: $ sudo pip install gym[atari]
  • Step 5: This step is optional. If you want to install all the gaming ...

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