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Downloading and Installing Python

The document provides instructions for downloading and installing Python and describes how to write and run a simple Python program. It recommends downloading Python from python.org, checking the "Add Python to PATH" option during installation, and using the IDLE integrated development environment that comes with Python to write "print('Hello World')" as a first program. It also demonstrates how syntax errors appear when parts of the program are deleted or changed, and recommends using the PyCharm editor.

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Downloading and Installing Python

The document provides instructions for downloading and installing Python and describes how to write and run a simple Python program. It recommends downloading Python from python.org, checking the "Add Python to PATH" option during installation, and using the IDLE integrated development environment that comes with Python to write "print('Hello World')" as a first program. It also demonstrates how syntax errors appear when parts of the program are deleted or changed, and recommends using the PyCharm editor.

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Downloading and installing

PYTHON
GO TO : https://www.python.org/downloads/

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Choose your operating system

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Choose the suitable release

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• select Python 3
– If you're a Windows user, start the downloaded .exe file and follow all the steps.
– Leave the default settings the installer suggests for now, with one exception - look at
the checkbox named Add Python 3.x to PATH and check it.

– If you're a macOS user, a version of Python 2 may already have been preinstalled on your
computer, but since we will be working with Python 3, you will still need to download and
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the Python site.
Starting your work with Python
Now that you have Python 3 installed
• To start your work, you need the following tools:
• an editor which will support you in writing the code
• a console in which you can launch your newly written code
and stop it forcibly when it gets out of control;
• the Python 3 standard installation contains an application
named IDLE.
IDLE is an acronym: Integrated Development and Learning
Environment.

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Navigate through your OS menus, find IDLE somewhere under
Python 3.x and launch it. This is what you should see:

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Python3.8.5 shell

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HOW TO WRITE AND RUN YOUR FIRST
PROGRAM

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1. create a new source file  

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2. IDLE opens a new window for you. You can
use it to write your code.

This is the Editor Window


• The editor window is currently untitled, but it's good practice to
start work by naming the source file, Click File (in the new
window), then click Save as..., select a folder for the new file and
chose a name for the new file.

Example:
Python needs its files to have the .py extension
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3. Write one line into your editor window
• The line looks like this:

4. Try to run your code

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This is the result of running your code

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How to spoil and fix your code
• Remove the closing parenthesis ) , your code contains a syntax
error now. IDLE should not let you run it.
• Try to run the program again. A new window appears – it says
that the interpreter has encountered an EOF (end-of-file)
• The editor window shows clearly where it happened.

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How to spoil and fix your code
• Let's spoil the code one more time. Remove one letter from
the word print. Run the code by pressing F5. As you can see,
Python is not able to recognize the error.

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The message (in red) shows
 the location of the error (the name of the file containing the error, line
number and module name)
* note: the number may be misleading, as Python usually shows the
place where it first notices the effects of the error, not necessarily
the error itself;
 the content of the erroneous line;
* note: IDLE’s editor window doesn’t show line numbers, but it
displays the current cursor location at the bottom-right corner; use
it to locate the erroneous line in a long source code;
 the name of the error and a short explanation.

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• You may have noticed that
the error message
generated for the previous
error is quite different from
the first one.
• This is because the nature
of the error is different and
the error is discovered at
a different stage of
interpretation

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We will use a special editor

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Watch the following videos to learn how to
install and use Pycharm
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQjf5sn
eeVI

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr71l40in
4o

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