Starting with Python - step by step in Windows (under construction)
First Steps
Summon up your courage, determination and patience to take on something new you can be proud of and share with family and friends. Make your mark on the world. Make it better.
- Determine the type and version of the operating system you are running on your personal computer (Windows 10?)
- Scan the previous page and note the various link headings and read the wiki's.
- Return to this page
- Create a Folder for Python Files
- Download Python 3. from Python Org Downloads
- Look for the Windows downloads, choose the one appropriate for your architecture
- Run the installer and click through the prompts. This installs IDLE, too, by default.
- Launch IDLE the Integrated Development Environment the free
- Read the Python Tutorial in the documentation file.
- Read documentation when you are the sharpest - early morning?
- Watch and listen to the You Tube videos with a notepad and pen - when you are not your sharpest. In the evenings?
- Take notes as you go along
- Create a notebook of your learnings
- Rome wasn't built in a day...be easy on yourself
- Persistence is an underrated virtue
- Double check sources...including this one. Things change.
- Wiki: The Zen of Python
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