Python Basics: A Practical Introduction to Python 3 Revised and Updated 4th Edition David Amos, Dan Bader, Joanna Jablonski, Fletcher Heisler Copyright © Real Python (realpython.com), 2012–2020

Logical operators are words (and, or, not) not symbols The basic printing command is print. The first assignment to a variable creates it. Variable types don’t need to be declared. Python figures out the …

Introduction to Programming with Python Python Review. Modified slides from Marty Stepp and Moshe Goldstein

This is our first python program. It is customary to have a programmer's first program write "hello world" (inspired by the first program in Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's classic book, 'The C …

The Origins of Python The Python programming language was initially written by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s and first released in the early ’90s. Its design borrows features from C, C++, …

A Python module is a file containing Python code that can be imported and used in another Python file. The main difference between a script and a module is that scripts are structured to be directly …

Rather than interactively entering code into the Python Shell, we can enter it in the Editor Pane, where we can edit it and save it away as a file with the .py extension (a Python program).