What you need for this book

For this book you’ll need a Python development environment (Python 3.5 or newer), a Canopy installer, Java Development Kit, and of course Spark itself (Spark 2.0 and beyond).

We'll show you how to install this software in first chapter of the book.

This book is based on the Windows operating system, so installations are provided according to it. If you have Mac or Linux, you can follow this URL http://media.sundog-soft.com/spark-python-install.pdf, which contains written instructions on getting everything set up on Mac OS and on Linux.