Get started

You need Windows 10 or 11, Python and a console cable.

Install Python from your own Windows account (no administrator rights needed). In a Command Prompt:

winget install --id Python.Python.3.13 -e --override "/quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1 InstallLauncherAllUsers=0"

Open a new Command Prompt and install pyserial:
```
py -m pip install pyserial
```
Download slatewise.pyw, put it in a folder such as C:\Lab, and double-click it. For a desktop shortcut with the Slatewise icon, open Display… and click Add Slatewise to the desktop.
Instructors: set the instructor password once, in a Command Prompt in that folder:
```
py slatewise.pyw --set-instructor-password
```
On shared classroom computers, ask your IT team to put Slatewise in a folder students can’t change, so nobody can swap the password file.

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