What you need for this book

Theano installation requires conda or pip, and the install process is the same under Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

The code has been tested under Mac OS and Linux Ubuntu. There might be some specificities for Windows, such as modifying the paths, that the Windows developer will solve quite easily.

Code examples suppose there exists on your computer a shared folder, where to download, uncompress, and preprocess database files that can be very voluminous and should not be left inside code repositories. This practice helps spare some disk space, while multiple code directories and users can use the same copy of the database. The folder is usually shared between user spaces:

sudo mkdir /sharedfiles
sudo chmod 777 /sharedfiles