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Create a folder on macOS

  1. Click on the “Finder” application.

Screenshot of the macOS Finder application.

  1. In the Finder window, click “Documents” on left hand side.

Selecting the Documents folder on the left side of Finder.

  1. Under “File” in the menu bar, click on “New Folder”.

Creating a new folder by selecting "File" and then "New Folder".

  1. Type in mats5000 for the folder name

Naming the new folder.

We can navigate to the folder in the Terminal with the cd, or change directory, command:

  1. In Spotlight type Terminal to launch the terminal application.

Starting up Terminal using Spotlight in macOS.

  1. Type in cd Documents/mats5000. Note: You can use TAB to autocomplete the folder name once you start typing.

(base) yourname@mac ~ % cd Documents/mats5000

Finished!

We can now return back to the Getting Started with Python lesson to continue configuring your computer for Python programming.