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In the Quickstart, you must complete the section "Before you begin" and "Initialize the SDK". After which, you may see the following messages.

Your current project has been set to: [some-name-1626].

Not setting default zone/region (this feature makes it easier to use [gcloud compute] by setting an appropriate default value for the --zone and --region flag).
See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gcloud-compute section on how to set default compute region and zone manually. If you would like [gcloud init] to be able to do this for you the next time you run it, make sure the Compute Engine API is enabled for your project on the https://console.developers.google.com/apis page.

You must also enable "Google Compute Engine API" at https://console.developers.google.com/apis for the project (created automatically for you if you have none) in order to continue with the next step.