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Python Course – 0. Development Environment for Python

Set up your computer to run your first Python program: install Anaconda with the Spyder IDE or PyCharm, and practice with simple exercises.

Ramón Invarato
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Series: Python Course part 1 of 9
Python Course
  1. Introduction
  2. 10. Development Environment for Python
  3. 21. Introduction
  4. 32. Basic Data Types
  5. 43. Collections
  6. 54. Flow Control Structures
  7. 65. Functions
  8. 76. Libraries/Packages
  9. 87. Exceptions
  10. 98. Files

We will install everything we need on our computer so that our first program works, and from there on, we can program whatever we want.

Theory

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Installing and Using Anaconda and the Spyder IDE

We will install Python and an IDE that comes included in Anaconda, from: Download Anaconda Distribution (Anaconda)

Note

To learn more, see the following posts:

Installing and Using the PyCharm IDE

For a professional environment that offers many more features, you can use PyCharm (download it from: PyCharm, el único IDE de Python que necesita (JetBrains)). Note: I only recommend it once you have practiced with Python for a few hours.

Note

To learn more, see the following posts (I recommend reading the next article once you are comfortable with Python):

Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to Welcome to Python.org

Click the remote terminal button (the “>_” icon on a yellow background):

Screenshot of python.org with the yellow ">_" "Launch Interactive Shell" button highlighted in red to open the remote console

In this terminal:

  1. Add two numbers.
    • For example: 3+7 and press the [Enter] key
  2. Display some text in the terminal (hint: the “print()” function prints text to the terminal).
    • For example: print(“Un texto”) and press the [Enter] key

Exercise 2

Run the following code in an IDE (for example, Spyder):

print(2+5)
print("Texto a imprimir por la consola")

“Python Course – 0. Development Environment for Python” by Ramón Invarato at jarroba.com, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. Registered at Safe Creative.

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Ramón Invarato

I design and build data platforms and intelligent systems, and I enjoy sharing that experience here.

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