Hello everyone i would be doing a series of python programming tutorials where I’ll be teaching the basics of python programming and as time goes on I might move unto advanced tutorials and if possible other programming languages.
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Before I go on lets start with the installation guide and setup of Python application and some of it’s peripherals.
First of all head on to Python official website at https://www.python.org or go to the download page to download the latest version of python which is 3.7.2 (at the date of posting this article)
Choose the installer that is suitable for the operating system your computer uses.
For windows choose the windows installer, for Mac OS choose the MAC installer
Windows users should go to Start Menu -- Control Panel -- System and check if your System type says 64 bit or 32 bit. This is important because the 64 bit windows executable installer wouldn't work on a 32 bit computer.
For MAC users go to the Apple menu and select About this Mac -- More info -- System Report -- Hardware. After that check for the processor name, if it says Intel Core Solo or Intel Core Duo, you have a 32-bit machine. If it says anything else, you have a 64-bit machine.
For Linux users, open the Command Terminal and type uname -m if it returns a response of i686 it means your computer is 32 bit but if it returns x86_64 it means your computer is 64 bit.
On windows download the executable python installer, then follow the instructions.
1) Click Install now if you have not installed python before, if not you can also choose the custom installation to choose between the different packages to install independently.
2) Wait for the installation to complete
3) After completing the installation, click close.
IDLE is short from Integrated Development Learning Environment it is a type of an IDE (interactive development Environment). There are many more IDE's such as
These other IDE's have much more advanced tools for more advanced tasks, but IDLE is suitable for beginners and is a very good environment for learning, it is easy to use with little or no complications, it has most of the tools you will need for this tutorial series, as time goes on you'll need more modules or packages to increase functionality like Numpy, wxPython, Scrapy, DJango for web databases and more . IDLE is also know as the python code editor were you type in your programs, it is quite useful and handy.
It also has an interactive shell for running code line by line, it is mainly used for testing code before putting it into the main program
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