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Python Install

Many PCs and Macs will have python already installed.

To check if you have python installed on a Windows PC, search in the start bar for
Python or run the following on the Command Line (cmd.exe):

C:\Users\Your Name>python --version


To check if you have python installed on a Linux or Mac, then on linux open the
command line or on Mac open the Terminal and type:

python --version
If you find that you do not have Python installed on your computer, then you can
download it for free from the following website: https://www.python.org/

Python Quickstart
Python is an interpreted programming language, this means that as a developer you
write Python (.py) files in a text editor and then put those files into the python
interpreter to be executed.

The way to run a python file is like this on the command line:

C:\Users\Your Name>python helloworld.py


Where "helloworld.py" is the name of your python file.

Let's write our first Python file, called helloworld.py, which can be done in any
text editor.

helloworld.py
print("Hello, World!")
Simple as that. Save your file. Open your command line, navigate to the directory
where you saved your file, and run:

C:\Users\Your Name>python helloworld.py


The output should read:

Hello, World!
Congratulations, you have written and executed your first Python program.

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