Python Projects for Beginners a ten-Week Bootcamp Approach to Python Programming

Writing Your First Line of Python

Up to this point, we haven’t done any programming. Generally, I’m against not diving right into coding myself; however, these basic setup instructions are crucial to getting started as a developer. Although we haven’t gone over any Python just yet, while the interpreter is still running, next to the arrows write the following code and hit enter:

>>> print("Hello, buddy!")

There you go! You’ve just written your first line of Python and should see the following output:

>>> print("Hello, buddy!") Hello, buddy!
>>>

Exiting the Python Shell

Now, I’ll get to explaining what you just wrote in a later lesson, but for now let’s get out of the Python shell and finish today’s lesson by writing the following line and hitting enter:

>>> exit( )

today’s lesson was all about operating and understanding the terminal. this is an important skill for several developer positions, especially those that use Linux operating systems. tomorrow we’ll discuss how to operate Jupyter notebook!
Thursday: Using Jupyter Notebook
Jupyter Notebook is going to be where we spend most of our time throughout this book. It’s a powerful tool that is used in the data science community and makes it easier for us to learn Python because we can solely focus on writing code. Today’s lesson is all about how to use this tool, the cells, and how to open it.
Note each lesson will always ask you to open Jupyter notebook, so keep this page handy in case you need to come back to it.
GettinG Started

Opening Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook can be opened through the Anaconda program; however, I want you to start getting used to the terminal and how to operate it, so we’re not going to open it through Anaconda. Instead, we’re going to do this through the terminal. The two benefits to this are

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  Jupyter Notebook will open in the same directory that our terminal is in
  
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  Knowing how to use terminal will help you as a developer
  

If you still have the terminal session from yesterday open, skip the first step.