python.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages out there,

and it's by far one of the most sought after for jobs

and so if you're trying to get a job

or you're trying to you know,

automate your life

or you try to write awesome scripts to do a bunch of different things than

python's for you

honestly

more and more developers every day are moving their projects over to python because it's such a powerful

and the surgeon

easy to use language,

a lot of programming languages out there just aren't very beginner friendly there's

a lot of syntax there's a lot of like little things that if you get wrong the program will yell at you.

python is the complete

opposite of that.

you basically just type out what you want to do in python does it it's that simple there's not

a whole lot of syntax to learn the learning curve is literally zero you jump in,

you can start writing your first program in seconds.

in this course

I'm gonna teach you guys.

everything you need to know to get started in python.

I designed this course

especially for python,

and each lesson has been specially designed with examples

that will help you along the way.

with so many people starting to learn python the question isn't,

why should you learn pipe on the question is why shouldn't you ?

and I think for a lot of people the reason they might not want to learn python is because they're intimidated or they're afraid that it's going to be too hard.

trust me I am going to hold your hand through this entire course we're going to talk about all the core concepts in python we're going to look at

everything you need to know

to start programming in python and start being confidence are writing scripts and start writing programs that are awesome in doing cool things in your life.

anyway

I'm super pumped to be teaching you guys python.

I can't wait to get started in this course

and I hope you guys stick around and fall along with the course and learn this amazing programming language

in this tutorial dominates three guys how to install python onto your computer.

and we're also going to install a text editor that we can use to write

our python programs

in.

so the first order of business is to actually install

python on your computer.

so we want to do is head over to your web browser

and

you want to go over here to this page it's just

www dot python dot org

forward slash

downloads

and on this

page there's

going to be

two buttons down here

and this is going to say download python three point six point three.

and at least

the version that I have right now or download python two point seven point one four.

so here's the thing about python there's actually two major versions of python

that are in use

currently

there is

python two

and there's python theories you can see over here,

this is like two point seven point one four

basically any python two

version we would just refer to as like python two

and here's like the latest

python three version.

and so there's these two versions that you can download and the first thing we have to decide on which version do we want to download.

and here's the basic difference

python

two

is a legacy version of python which basically means that

it's like an

old version and it's not being like actively maintained or supported

like officially by python anymore.

python

three is like the future of python it's like the newest version it's the one that's getting actively maintained and supported.

so there's pros and cons to picking either won

a lot of people say like python too

has been around longer and so there's more like

libraries there's basically just more python code written in python two

so therefore like there's a few more things that you can do in pipe onto then you can do in python three

but then again

python two is not supported and you know,

five or ten years from now

probably no one's going to be using it.

python three it like a site is like the future of python it's the newest version it's the one that

you know it's sort of being maintained going forward.

so for the purposes of this tutorial I'm going to be teaching you guys

python

three

so we're going to want to download python

three

now here's vaguely

if you learn python three or you learn python to the differences aren't very big.

there are a few differences in like some syntax and just so

you know little things here and there,

but if you learn python three you'll be able to jump right in and

code in python two as well don't let anyone

tell you that

you have to learn one of the other.

we're going to learn python three just because it's I think probably the best for a beginner to learn.

and so that's the one that we want to download so I'm just going to click download python three

and we're gonna go ahead and download

this version.

and when that's done downloading I'm going to head down to my downloads folder

and you'll see here we just have this file

doubleclick,

and we get this like python installer so I'm going to click through here,

and we'll be able to install python three on our computer

right when that's done and stalling we can just close out of this and we should begin to get us now we have python three

installed on our computer.

the next step

is we need to choose a text

editor so

we're going to be writing a bunch of code so we're going to need some you know environment of some program that we can write all that code in.

and really you can write python in any text editor you could write it in like a note pad or tax at it,

it doesn't really matter

but there are special

text editors that are designed

just for writing python code.

and these are called

id ease and not stands for

integrated development environment.

it's basically just a special environment where we can you know ron and execute our python code.

and it'll you know basically like tell us how we're doing so were

the only if we write something that's wrong or we

have errors it'll kind of

point us in the right direction of what we need to do to fix that stuff,

so in this course we're going to be using an idea

and

one of my favorites

and one of the most popular ity ease for python is called pi charm.

so I'm over here on this website.

it's called

jet brains

dotcom

forward slash

pi charm.

and this is the idea that we're gonna be using in this course

so I'm just gonna come over here and click this big download

now button

and we'll go ahead and

download this

pie charm program

right so I'm getting this page are here you can see there's two versions of pi charm

one as a professional version and that one's like paid they have to pay for it.

but then there's this community version down here and that's free and open source so I'm going to download this one

and this should have everything we need to get started using python

right when that finishes downloading I'm just going to

pull that up in my downloads folder

and

again we can just sort of

run this guy

and I'm on a mac so I'm going to have to drag it over to my applications folder.

all right so now have pi charm

and we have python

three installed on your computer.

so we're ready to start programming in

python.

in this tutorial we're going to create our first

python program.

and we're going to be able to run it and

see how everything works.

the first thing I want to do is open up

pi charm so pi charm was the

idea he the

integrated development environment

that we downloaded in the last tutorial so

I'm just going to go out and search for it on my computer

and I can just open it up

and we first opened up high charm we should basically just get a window

prompting us to create a project.

so you can see that down here.

actually the first thing I want to do though is come over here to configure

and I'm just going to

click on preferences.

and I actually want to

change the appearance

so

I'm gonna go ahead and

give this a theme so I just went over here to appearance and behavior appearance

and I'm gonna change the theme to

darker color

because I think it's a little bit easier to

use and look at,

but you don't have to do that if you don't want you

so

down here

I'm just going to click

create new projects

and it's going to

give us this little window right here so I can just name my project.

and I'm just going to name this

graph.

and then there's other option down here where it says interpreter.

now

what we wanna select

is

python version three

so if I click down here you'll notice that there's a couple different options.

so I'm on a mac computer

and

by default mac has

python

version two installed on it.

if you're on a windows machine I'm not sure if it does but

in this tutorial we're going to be using python three so you wanna make sure that you have python

three selected as the interpreter,

otherwise

you

might not be able to fully follow along with what we're doing in this video.

so now it's going to come down here and click

create.

and this is going to go ahead and create our projects

for us

right so now we have

our

python project

up and running,

and I'm sure you guys how we can create our first

python program,

so over here in this draft folder and this is just that project that we created.

I'm just going to right click

and I'm saying new

and I'm going to come down and click

python file so we want to create a new python file this will be our first

python program.

and

I can just give this a name,

so why don't we just call this

app

and it's going to click ok

all right so now we have our first

python file

open

and we can just start typing in some python so I want to show you guys.

does a very basic python program.

and this is just going to be a hello world programs so we're just gonna print something out onto the screen.

so when I say

what I want to do is I want to type out p r iyer anti prince

and wanted to have an

open and closed

parentheses

now

inside of those parentheses we can make some

quotation marks

and inside of the quotation marks I'm just going to tape out

hello

world.

so this is like a very basic python program.

and what this is gonna do is

it's just going to print out hello world

onto the screen.

and so now what I can