Python: Setting Things Up

Python is a high level, object-oriented programming language. In this lesson we will learn how to setup our python programming environment and make a simple Hello World application.

Setup

Firstly go to python.org and download the latest stable version of python (I use version 2.7 and will be teaching using this, if you have a 3.something then it may be slightly different to what I teach); simply follow the simple installation instructions to install Python. To test if Python installed correctly open "IDLE (Python GUI)" from your start menu and type in:

print "Hello World!"

If "Hello World!" is outputed then python is installed correctly!



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